Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strictly constitutional exercises. One of his most independent and controversial achievements was the discovery in a Paris cafe, in 1934, of Hildegarde, the "French" chanteuse from Milwaukee. He has been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop...
Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) was highly effective as theater, if not always exciting as music (sometimes the score sounded like background for a Norman Corwin radio thriller...
Peck still clings doggedly to the notion of being a stage actor. It is not that he considers himself too good for movies (he doesn't think he is good enough), nor even that he thinks plays are better than pictures. But he still believes that the theater is the best place to learn how to act. He has been instrumental in organizing a Selznick-financed group of movie people (Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire, et al.) who do stage-acting in their spare time. But it will be a long time-three years at least-before...
...Sanders Theater originally was to be the scene of the sprig play, but Kilty pointed out that rental cost is prohibitive, and the fire laws demand a considerable limitation on scenery. Moreover, the University had given use of the auditorium to an outside organization during the week promised...
...boiling," he wrote, with ideas for Boris, and the pages were beginning to fill. His friends hovered over him like mother hens, pecking, suggesting, soothing. When Boris was finally produced (it was turned down at first because originally it had no female roles), the audience in the Marinsky Theater received it with enthusiastic astonishment. Said one spectator: "What sort of opera is this? There's no music in it; but I must confess I never took my eyes from the stage." Russian critics and musicians regarded it with horror. Screamed one: "This is a disgrace to all Russia...