Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Homecoming, with Clark Gable and Lana Turner...
...Austria, the seminar has an alumni body of almost 1000 in 17 countries of both East and West. The students who attended the summer sessions--and they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land study. A sociological project in Germany...
Sullivan cited Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum that "no man is free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" in defense of his thesis that Communist Party tactics are a "present threat" to American freedom and should be opposed by whatever legislation is needed. Emphasizing the implications of the present international situation, he said, "There are only two contestants in the world scene today--the United States and Russia. We have no alternative but to consider Russia as an enemy...
...combines to make this the best of the four pieces. Indeed the production and acting are on an unusually high level throughout the four stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group of "one-acts...
...framework of a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which is reminiscent of vandeville in its pacing and gags, stems from the contrast between life backstage and the rehearsing of Shakespeare's tragedy. Corny but amusing...