Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council also gave its approval to a fund drive for a Theater Arts Center which might eventually grow into a Student Activities Center. The Center project, with the Council aegis over it, has a chance of picking up a big donation this week...
Like lyric writing (for some 50 unsung songs), radio (where, after five failures, his current show-Wed. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC-is fattening on his TV glory), and movies (for which a plastic surgeon bobbed his nose in 1939), the theater is one of Milton's gnawing frustrations. This season, while already riding high in TV, he tried unsuccessfully to get a supporting role in South Pacific. But producers are now wooing him instead...
University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness...
...young drugstore clerk strolled into a vaudeville theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...
Last week, the grand old man resigned as production chief of Fox, now will spend all his time on his 364 theaters. Although Fox President Spyros P. Skouras refused the resignation, it was almost sure to go through. Joe's move was in preparation for a Government antitrust order which is expected to direct Fox to divorce its production and distribution activities from its theater operations...