Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely devoted to artistic burlesque--the fig-leaf garb was abandoned in favor of a more inclusive costume when University Hall read the dispatches--HDC spends its more normal moments as a laboratory of experimental theater. Its purpose is primarily education of its members, and for this reason most of its plays are first performances of obscure works...
Members spend two nights a week in rehearsal under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music. So far this season the group has performed at Sanders Theater with the Radcliffe Choral Group and travelled to Swampscott to play at the Tedesco Country Club. Planned for the coming term is another Sanders performance and a trip to Groton School, as well as joint concerts with Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, and Colby Junior College...
Farce--"a light dramatic composition of satirical or humorous cast," according to Webster. The Plymouth Theater's latest offering, soon to move on to Broadway, meets the letter of the definition, but it will never quite rank as a leading example of what can be a well-developed and highly amusing theater...
...furor might also interfere with Selznick's more important plans to form his own distributing company (TIME, Dec. 23). Unlike Hughes, to whom movies are just a sideline, Selznick was in no position to capitalize, publicity-wise, on the objections of church organizations. Theater owners might refuse to show Duel rather than risk their displeasure, a decision which would cost Selznick about $2,000,000 in New York City alone...
Died. Lieut. General Daniel Isom Sultan, 61, Inspector General of the U.S. Army who relieved the late General Joseph Stilwell as wartime commanding general of the India-Burma Theater, first soldier to receive four Distinguished Service Medals; of a heart ailment; in Washington...