Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Theater (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Eric Ambler's creepy man hunt through the Balkans, A Coffin for Dimitrios...
Violence flared throughout the country. In Toulouse, a Gaullist at a Communist meeting was thrown from a theater balcony into the orchestra and died. Comrade Maurice Thorez himself was involved in a bang-up brawl. At a Communist rally, he invited a foolhardy heckler, Socialist Jacques Karaimsky, to come on up and say his say on the platform. Karaimsky did: "Perhaps you have forgotten that . . . Moscow used to feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried...
There was no mistaking the splashy flowered dresses, the flashy painted faces of the "first class" girls from Peiping's red light district. More than 300 of them ("tripping daintily by like so many pretty birds " one newspaper reported) flocked into the Great Continent Theater. Why this concentration of purchasable beauty, onlookers asked each other, and so early in the morning...
Mata Haris was available to fight the Communists. Through a crack in the rear window shutter (the press was barred from the theater), the reporter watched the girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they...
...others (by Rose's reckoning): concert, theater, movies, ballet, opera, jive...