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Word: theaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...locking the barn door that keeps the rain away. Plans have always been worked out to the smallest detail for the eventuality of showers, Sanders Theater prepared, and rain tickets printed. And all--for 27 years--to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 27 Years of No Avail Plans Fight Commencement Rains | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Three days of alumni festivities will reach a climax this afternoon when the Alumni Association hold its annual meeting in the Tercentenary Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Gathering Will Hear Honorary Degree Recipients | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Headed by Robert F. Bradford '23, chief marshal of the Alumni, the assembled members of the reunion classes will form at 2 o'clock in the outer Yard and pass into the Theater after commencement dignitaries on the Widener steps review the pageant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Gathering Will Hear Honorary Degree Recipients | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

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