Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spurred by her engineer-father, once a Chicago singer-she danced and sang in Texas mining towns. At six, she hit the road for a West Coast vaudeville circuit. She was only eleven when she crashed radio in San Antonio. There she organized neighborhood kids into the Little Texans Theater of the Air over WOAI. Peggy wrote and managed the program, used her vocal talents for little boy roles and sound effects...
...Thursday afternoon oral readings of Shakespeare in English 24a, William A. West '49, a member of the class and of the Harvard Dramatic Club, has evolved the idea of staging a radio-type reading of "Hamlet" in Sanders Theater...
West, who staged last spring's HDC production of "Winterset" and has appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse as Horatio in "Hamlet" will play the title role in the Sanders Theater production. He has chosen all the other members of his cast except Claudius and The Ghost...
Only a handful bought tickets to her first concert in Mexico City last year, but at intermission excited Mexicans rushed into the streets to shout the news of a new discovery. For the encores, the theater was filled, even to standees. The newspaper Novedades raved: "Was it an angel? A nightingale? A flute of gold?" During the next four weeks Ellabelle Davis sang five more concerts; all were sellouts. Finally the Nacional signed her for this season's Aïda. After the opera season she is booked for 21 concerts in Central and South America...
...critics readily obliged. The Mirror's tribute: "One of the . . . nastiest . . . exhibits ever to contaminate a theater." The Post's: "[The] ad's wrong, son. It's the worst play that ever hit any place...