Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before a full house. He was the theater parking lot attendant, and the men in the orchestra pit had noticed him leading them from the stage door night after night. On this occasion they marched him to the podium and played his favorite composition...
...onetime chapel is now Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol (The Theater of the Big Puppets), the greatest horror show on earth. As a tourist attraction, it has ranked for years with the Eiffel Tower, Picasso, and the late maisons de tolerance...
...Really," sighed English Actress Eva Berkson, who currently owns & operates the theater, "I've almost come to the conclusion that the only way to frighten a French audience since the war is to cut up a woman on the stage-a live woman, of course-and throw them the pieces...
More than 100 of the 250 members of the University Zionist Organization will attend a theater party to be given by that group on Wednesday, March 19, the opening night of "Saint Joan," the Veterans' Theater Workshop's spring production...
Scenery will be kept to a minimum, although there will be full theater lighting and costuming. "The shows will be equal to any college production." West said, "but the special circumstances will limit us mostly to modern plays...