Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theater's and Cinema's Man of the Year was Laurence Olivier, whose Oedipus and Hotspur reminded Broadway of the difference between adequacy and excellence, and whose Henry V could not have reminded Hollywood of anything it had ever seen before. Sportsmen of the year came in pairs: Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder re-won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in the year's last week, and Army's Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis made their last appearance in the game against Navy that was almost lost in two of the most exciting minutes...
...week that G.I.s and Army-employed civilians may marry German Fräuleins. Some qualifications: 1) the G.I.'s marriage application must be approved by his commanding officer and the mayor of the girl's town; 2) the prospective groom must be scheduled to leave the European Theater a month after the application is okayed. Happiest over the new order were the eligible German girls, who had long complained: "We are good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to marry...
Ashore, the Italians came off less happy; at the Municipal Theater a comedia company flopped in two Pirandello plays. But this week there might be a comeback ; the Italians intended to set up their portable stadium before the massive, stolid Treasury Ministry, parade La Scala stars in La Traviata...
...school in Jamestown, N.Y., worked as a candy butcher on trains, then as a dress salesman. In 1918, he and his brother plunked down $1,500 in savings to lease a dilapidated building called the Hippodrome at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop: 23,329). With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon owned one of the biggest independent circuits in the U.S. His Schine Chain Theaters, Inc. now operates upwards of 150 theaters...
...College theater must be experimental theater," West asserted after his resignation in protest to the H.D.C. executive committee's action...