Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...
Messrs. Smith and Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
...supporting ones. Delineations of a philosophical bartender and a pseudo-sophisticated street-walker are especially well done. But the primary attribute of the play is that it can discuss a significant problem in an objective and straightforward manner, without destroying the inherent qualities that make it, above all, good theater...
John Wildberg, prominent Broadway producer, will lecture on "Television: The Eighth Lively Art" at 4 o'clock today in Emerson Hall. The address is sponsored jointly by William B. Van Lennep, Curator of the Library Theater Collection, and the Harvard Dramatic Club...