Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selected a theater for the production. Sanders Theater, where the group presented "Adam The Creator" this fall, presents great difficulties because of its lack of necessary stage equipment...
Bernard Shaw having walked off with Saint Joan for the theater of his time, and perhaps of all time, Playwright Anderson prudently goes at her sidelong, writing a play within a play. He portrays actors rehearsing, on a bare stage, a play about Joan; and he laces their drama with hers by having the director (nicely played by Sam Wanamaker) and the leading lady squabble over the script's delineation of the Maid...
...Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Burlesque, with June Havoc, Bert Lahr, Tony Ross...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) gives Hollywood its cleanest fall, to date, in its wrestle with postwar problems. It is a big (2 hr. 45 min.), shiny, star-studded show that should appeal to practically anyone who can be lured inside a movie theater. Producer Goldwyn, cheerfully shooting the works on as glittery a collection of scripting, directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire...
...misleading translation: paradis is French slang for a theater's cheapest, topmost balcony seats. More idiomatic translation: The Kids in the Peanut Gallery...