Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Theater Workshop opens its 17-day run of "The Tempest" tonight at Brattle Hall with a benefit performance for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund. This evening's net will be the first income to reach the fund started last week in order to bring visiting lecturers on the drama to Harvard College...
...first night audience will witness what will probably be the last Harvard Theater Workshop undergraduate venture. The HTW intends to run a full time professional repertory theater in Brattle Hall opening sometime next fall...
...concerts will grace the University scene tonight, one by the Harvard Band at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater, the other sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs at 8:30 p.m. in Paine Music Building...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop...
...ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...