Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Company. In Philadelphia, Myer Apfelbaum sued a movie theater for $1,500 damages caused by his own "ferocious and vicious" cat, which had been, he said, a gentle tabby before the theater manager borrowed it as a mouser for a couple of months...
More important to Ben Hecht than a cutlass, however, was his Aunt Chasha's umbrella. Once when he was six, Tante Chasha crashed her umbrella down on the head of a theater manager who had asked her to apologize. Outside in the street she told young Ben with a sunny smile: "Remember what I tell you. That's "the right way to apologize." Ben never forgot...
...been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went for 80 yen, the highest theater prices in Japanese history...
...shuffled slowly through the Yard. He was drearily humming the tune whose words went ". . . sleeping in the noonday sun." It seemed the whole city of Cambridge was sleeping, like some Italian village. The rush and stir of exams, Commencement, and Reunion had passed. Tercentenary Theater had returned to its unknown lair from which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine...
This week The Rape of Lucretia, the second opera from Composer Britten's one-a-year production line,* got a professional U.S. premiere from Chicago's vigorous young Opera Theater. Chicago, in turn, got what was, by the current depressed standards of opera-writing, a bang-up opera. Like the British, who first applauded The Rape a year ago, the audience in Chicago's Shubert Theatre found that homely, curly-haired Composer Britten, at 33, was not yet a new Richard Strauss come to judgment. But critics liked his forcefully discordant, often tender music, well married...