Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proof that Western Europe does not want a revitalized Germany was cited by Bernard Bernstein, ex-Mediterranean Theater trouble-shooter. France, he observed, would rather see the iron ore deposits of Lorraine expanded with American loans than the coal areas of Rlieno-Westphalia...
Novello's life has revolved entirely around the theater. He has played in British movies as recently as 1937 and in a few early Hollywood silents. But "I loathe making films," he says. "It's entirely against nature to get up at 7 o'clock in the morning and put on evening dress...
...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...
Meanwhile, as the first step in a campaign to induce motion picture palaces in the Boston area to show UN-produced films, the College UN Council has asked the University Theater to screen "The People's Charter," which is the first production of the UN's film division...