Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week all London was still fighting for tickets to the U.S. musical Oklahoma! But for a simple-minded evening in the theater, the British public preferred an outrageously sentimental, swashbuckling melodrama-with-music called Perchance to Dream. It celebrated its thousandth performance by packing the Hippodrome to the rafters with sniffling, wildly applauding spectators...
Perhaps the screen-theater has finally discovered, as the legitimate theater did a century ago, that audiences eventually sicken of the modern romance and prefer something a bit more tangible and certainly more useful...
Five months of sifting and sorting more than 100 aspirants for roles in the Veterans' Theater production of "Henry IV" came to an end last night when president Jerome T. Kilty '50 came out of a huddle with Workshop officials to make known the 27 actors who will start rehearsals on Thursday...
...Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have to produce another. The fun is gone." He said that he was 90 (he is 47)-"as old as Shaw. But I feel older...
...urged that resources be pooled to establish "a theater group which will truly reflect the best that Harvard has to offer...