Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
...Detroit police learned from Raymond W. Scott, a movie usher, why he had falsely reported that a time bomb was in the theater: for six weeks he had been looking at the same Lana Turner movie...
...paintings were never like armchairs, but there was something soothing in their luxurious brilliance, and they sold well enough to provide him with plenty of armchair comfort. "Tell the American people," he urged a reporter, "that I am a devoted husband and father . . . that I go to the theater, ride horseback, have a comfortable home, a fine garden that I love . . . just like...
...Editor Cudlipp was an office boy on a Welsh paper at 14, a London theater critic at 20. When Beaverbrook made him boss of his Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...
When the public and the critics decided back in 1931 that they liked "Mourning Becomes Electra," they were welcoming the most ambitions, and perhaps even the most dramatically effective effort ever seen in the American theater. The play, a modern version of Aeschylus' resounding and grisly trilogy, "The Oresteia," lasted five hours, during which there were four violent deaths, a number of suggestions of incest, and scarcely a letup in the terrible tension. Now comes the movie. No concessions have been made to the public's sentimentality, and the compression of the film to two and a half hours makes...