Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks he might have another...
...Playwrights' Company gave its $1,500 Memorial Award (for Playwright Sidney Howard), to encourage new playwrights, to Broadway's yearling Experimental Theater, which had already staged five new plays by five new playwrights...
Washington, which has always thought of itself as a Southern city, was sharply reminded last week that it is also the nation's capital. Actors' Equity Association, the actors' union, served the proprietor of the National Theater (Washington's one & only "legit" playhouse) with an ultimatum: the theater's ban on selling seats to Negroes must be lifted by June 1948-or Equity will ban all its actors from playing there...
...American Theater Wing handed out memorial awards for Director Antoinette Perry (Harvey, Kiss the Boys Goodbye), who died last year. Among the recipients: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Fredric March, for their Broadway performances this season; Mr. & Mrs. Ira Katzenberg (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939) for their durability as first-nighters; Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Sr., "for providing a . . . comfort station for theater folk. . . ." The men got gold money clips, the women Tiffany compacts with "little automatic windshield wipers on the mirrors...
...immortalize those sons of Harvard who had fallen in the Union cause, they started a controversy similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles." And the marble tablets that cover the walls may still be read "amid the gorgeous emblazonry"--with a flashlight...