Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it has failed in its original purpose, the HDC has figured prominently in the history of the theater in this country. Not only can it claim to have first offered creative opportunity to such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale...
...takes a play which has just been thoroughly trounced by the Broadway critics and tried to resuscitate it in the hope that it will then prove a money-maker for him. Such was the case when the HDC offered Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors" last year in a Boston-theater...
Denis Johnston, former director of the Abbey Theater in Dublin and currently director of drama at the British Broadcasting Corporation will round out the panel as representative of stage and radio dramatists...
Honking merrily, the red & yellow buses bumped along the back roads of North Carolina. At Laurinburg (pop. 5,685) they pulled up in front of an old Air Force camp theater, and 60 musicians tumbled out with their instruments. An audience of kids, who had trekked in from all over corn-and cotton-raising Scotland County, was there already, waiting for one of the 117 concerts that Conductor Benjamin Swalin's peripatetic North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (and its 23-man task force) will play at more than 60 highway & byway spots in the state this spring...
...motion picture, there may be no more than a handful of really serious students of the cinema in each audience. The larger percentage of subscribers are probably people who have recently been introduced to the treasury of foreign films and are consequently more and more discontented with the neighborhood theater's fare. The film society is bringing foreign films to communities where it is commercially unprofitable to show them: a commendable, if subversive, work...