Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Theater of the Air (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). Colonel Robert R. McCormick (see PRESS) congratulating his Chicago Tribune on its 100th anniversary...
...weather is almost as hard on shows as cool reviews, and from now on one Broadway theater after another will be going dark. But these shows and standbys are almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...
Icetime of 1948 (produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirtz) could almost be reviewed with a pair of ditto marks. The sixth of the Center Theater's chronically successful ice shows, it displays the same skill as the other five, the same lavishness, and, eventually, the same monotony. By now, obviously, a really new skating act is as hard to find as a new gambit at chess. But by cheating a little here & there, Icetime of 1948 has come up with some extra fun. Entering on skates, which he promptly kicks off, Joe Jackson Jr. goes into the hilarious...
...much less airy and aristocratic comedy than Congreve's The Way of the World, Love for Love is for that very reason a livelier theater piece. Its farce is its fortune; just about the broadest stage business in the whole play-countrified Miss Prue being taught city ways of love -is just about the best thing it offers. Indeed, like almost all Restoration comedy, much of Love for Love runs, sometimes boringly, to bawdry...
...former Army generals and one of the world's foremost scientists received honorary degrees from the University this morning along with nine other national figures at the high point of Harvard's 296th Commencement proceedings in Tercentenary Theater...