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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playboy of the Western World (by John Millington Synge; produced by Theatre Inc.) remains, after 40 years, one of the fine things in the modern theater. What seems strange is that 40 years ago it should have been so furiously attacked. Yet the half-whimsical satire of Synge's folk comedy enraged Dublin's patriots as a stab at Ireland, and incensed her puritans by mentioning a woman's "shift."*A few years later, in Manhattan, explosive Irish Americans started a theater riot that ex-President Teddy Roosevelt, seated in a box, aborted by speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Before a crowd of over 1,500 in Sanders Theater, Pope opposed a "get-tough-with-Russia" attitude defended by David Dallin, former member of the Moscow Soviet. Harrison Salisbury, United Press foreign editor, in a history-like appraisal of Russia since the war, asserted that her foreign policy stemmed from fear of the western powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Speakers Clash Over U.S. Russian Policies | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

Domestic sources of Russian foreign policy will be debated tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theater, as the Law School Forum begins its 1946-47 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum to Tackle Base of Soviet Policy | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

Since plans call for using all parts of the theater during various scenes, the lights will be of "major importance." Committee co-chairmen will be Thorndike Saville, Jr. '46, and Whitney L. Frye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Announces McCullough as Director of 'Adam the Creator' | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

Years Ago--A Ruth Gordon autobiographical comedy, featuring Frederic March and Florence Eldridge and with Garson Kanin directing, at the Copley Theater Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN BOSTON | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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