Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, 1,500,000 words of testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under...
...February 1928 the little nine-piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every...
...playhouses and its audiences have been dwindling steadily for a generation, but Broadway likes to stake its survival on a romantic cliche: the theater is "the fabulous invalid" that never dies. By this summer the invalid had grown so feeble that a doctor was called in. For diagnosis and prescription, the League of New York Theatres (most of Manhattan's producers and playhouse operators) hired Public Relations Man Edward L. Bernays...
This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...
...want some exciting and highly entertaining theater, disregard the window at Mandrake and don't miss the big beginning at Brattle Hall this week...