Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaudeville performer, Jackie Robinson thought, he would make a good first baseman. Explained Jackie: "I can't sing or dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear...
Byeways. He lived as befitted a Randlord. He acquired a stable of 30 horses, raced them in England. "Byeways," the Erleigh estate north of Johannesburg, grew along with New Union Goldfields. A swimming pool was built, then a small theater...
There were only eleven students; if they could find a twelfth, they could buy their dancing lessons cheaper. They descended on a pint-sized teen-ager backstage in a Dresden theater who had hopes of becoming a stage designer. How would he like to study under Dancer Mary Wigman, the new rage of Europe? He was willing: Before long, Harald Kreutzberg was the prize...
...John Ervine's Irish melodrama about rape, murder and an unpaid mortgage was the Guild's first hit 28 years ago, pulled the fledgling producers into the black at a time when they were down to their last $19.50. For news of another Ervine play, see THEATER...
...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...