Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their third and last bill. So far, England's Old Vic had given Broadway some good Shakespeare and some dubious Chekhov (TIME, May 20, 27). But last week they gave Broadway its greatest theatrical experience in years. Reaching back 25 centuries to Sophocles, they bodied forth, as superb theater, as searing tragedy, his Oedipus the King...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
Actress Merman plays Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting whiz of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-and the gal whose name became a synonym (because they are punched with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
...took ex-Theater Critic Brooks Atkinson six months and a personal cablegram to Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow. Even before he left New York, the Times began going through the red tape necessary to get his successor in. Last week the Times succeeded. It had taken nearly a year and the intercession of U.S. Ambassador "Beedle" Smith to get the visa. Said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vishinsky to Beedle Smith: "The New York Times is not particularly friendly to Russia...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Margaret O'Brien, Jose Iturbi, Jimmy Durante co-star in Music for Millions...