Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights Out. The Civilian Production Administration turned its attention to consumers. Theater and store owners were warned that unless they dimmed their lights they would be subject to a $10,000 fine or one year in jail...
...Rossia eased away from the quay into the gathering murk, lights blazed in a tiny Russian church, erected in the backyard of Marseilles' only Russian restaurant. A reverent hum came from the windows. Said the owner of the restaurant, a former ballet dancer in the Russian Imperial Theater: "We are also praying for those who are leaving...
...designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...
Temporary Duty. The German scientists are listed as "civilian employes of the U.S. War Department, European Theater, On temporary duty in the U.S." They earn a small daily wage ($2-$11), which is paid to their dependents in Germany. In addition, they get the regular $6 per diem allowance for detached duty...
...fantasies are noisily colorful, and there are strong realistic moments, as when Chris suddenly goes to pieces. Nor is there anything particularly false in what happens. There is just nothing freshly, uniquely true. Even so, Christopher Blake might be pretty effective theater if the writing were not often so flat, or the general effect so top-heavy...