Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, too, someone else said we had four traffic lights . . . two more lights than we had autos! . . . Fred Allen made a crack about the tall grass that was flourishing in front of the Regent Theater...
Molle Mystery Theater (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). One of radio's creepiest mystery shows...
Last week, when the curtain went up in London's Cambridge Theater, 41-year-old Serge Lifar, fit as ever but fatter, lay prostrate on a rock, in the faun's familiar costume: spotted, close-fitting tights, and naked from the waist up. Debussy's gentle, reedy music was lost in a balcony din of hisses, boos and catcalls. Someone yelled "collaborator" in French; a more irreverent Britisher in the gallery called out "hot dog!" As Lifar picked up a scarf to caress it (it was left behind by a wood nymph) a well-timed whistle split...
...into a fancy Manhattan cellar, La Martinique. She hated it. "The first show everybody's eating shrimp while you're singing your heart out. The second show they're all slightly tight. The third show they're loaded." She went from there to the Paramount Theater and later a 26-week contract alternating with Perry Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income...
Academy Award Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The spooky Maltese Falcon with Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart...