Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's smart Nippon Theater he was singing his latest song-a dialogue between a G.I. and a Japanese girl-when two Nisei from Allied Headquarters dropped...
...year since V-E day not a single entertainer, other than a D.P., had put on his act in any of the 333 D.P. camps. Last week the Yiddish theater's Molly Picon, saucer-eyed "idol of the East Side," and Jacob Kalich, her husband, the "Ziegfeld of Second Avenue," sailed from Manhattan for Europe to change all that...
Acting out this long, congested story, the Old Vic remembered first & foremost that it was Shakespeare. It offered no tricks or natty novelties; its only freedom was to build Part II around Falstaff, partly concealing lumpy drama in lively theater...
Here & there the Old Vic proved disappointing. For a great repertory company, it had more than its quota of indifferent actors; there was no great distinction in their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
...stood up well beside works of greater fame. If "Rodeo" is not one of the most famous ballets presented in recent years by any ballet company, what is it? Does J.A.L. realize that "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille was the force behind ballet in all musical comedies? When the Theater Guild saw the Ballet Russe's production, they hired de Mille to do the choreography for "Oklahoma!" and even J.A.L. surely doesn't need diagrams drawn from here...