Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, there seemed to be no worry about paying the check. From anonymous sources came $528,000 to buy London's topnotch Westminster Theater for Buchmanite theatricals. And as a continental HQ, the Group acquired (for $250,000) the sumptuous, turreted Palace Hotel in the Swiss resort town of Caux, high above Lake Geneva. Renaming it "Mountain House," the Buchmanites moved in last summer and say they have kept it filled to its 700-person capacity ever since...
...After dinner the house guests collected in the big baroque hall to see a very reasonable facsimile of professional theater. . . . Then came a pep talk in Howard's English accents. . . . He warned that M.R.A. is 'no rosy glow of cosy revival' but 'costly revolution and colossal renaissance,' and illustrated the point by saying that his own change had compelled him to apologize to his younger brother for past meannesses...
...arias as well as tunes; septets, choral passages, large-scale orchestral effects, recitatives. As music, some of this is fancy, facile, too high-pitched. But, thanks to the rest of the score and to the residual vitality in Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene is steadily interesting musical theater...
...will take a better play to better U.S.Soviet relations through the theater. This one badly flops, less because it is built on a formula than because it is built so badly. What is finally thrown together is a hack job of comedy, corn, melodrama and sex that provides a few bright moments by way of some minor characters...
...Veterans' Theater Workshop will ask undergraduate theatergoers to choose "the play they would most like to see produced at Harvard" in a poll to be distributed in the House dining halls tonight...