Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation for the annual joint glee club performance with the Bulldog harmony men, the Glee Club ran through a final rehearsal of its repertoire last night in Emerson Hall. They will get under way at 8:15 o'clock tonight before a sellout crowd of 1200 in Sanders Theater, where the two clubs will sing their separate programs in turn and conclude the song fest by a joint singing of their respective Alma Maters...
...Moscow's flag-bedecked Bolshoi Theater the keynote address of the anniversary was delivered by the man whom many think Stalin has picked as his successor: swart, stocky Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 50. He is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and is also chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament), boss of Leningrad, colonel-general in the Russian Army and member of the potent, 14-man Politburo...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...when the American Repertory Theater got going last week with Shakespeare's Henry VIII* and Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, it was all set for at least two years...
...Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement, and in their own way Miss Dunham and her company dance, slither and writhe expertly...