Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting Room Only. In Blauvelt, N.Y., Summer Theater Operator Harry Rosen, plagued with a surplus of actors, began hiring them out to customers at 50? an hour as baby sitters...
First, audiences crammed into Tangle-wood's tiny opera theater to see the first U.S. performance of Benjy's fourth opera Albert Herring (TIME, June 30, 1947), which is already a favorite of English audiences and many English critics...
...Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
When smoke and cries of "Fire!" filled a Norwich, Conn, summer theater, Actress Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, ran true to the family form for crises. Stepping out of her role in The Philadelphia Story, she calmed the audience and told a few jokes while some burning rubbish was doused backstage...
Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...