Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of an "episode"--with instances of egg-throwing and organized hectoring by self-appointed student vigilantes that have dogged "free institutions of learning" throughout the country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...
There were more idlers on the streets. Bowling alleys were filled nightly with spectators who came in for a free show. By day men scoured the town for work. A theater manager who was installing a septic tank at his new home outside of town said: "A couple of days ago three fellows came out and asked if they could have the job. I told them they could do the digging at a dollar an hour. They took it. Why, Jackson hasn't seen such prices in the building business since before...
...Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Shadow of a Doubt, with Gregory Peck...
...throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled, carnival pandemonium begins...
...honor of attending in person. Louis repaid the compliment with a grinning bow to the royal box: "This one's for you, Rex." In Italy he relished seeing his own picture blown up to the same size as Mussolini's, hanging on the opposite side of the theater doorway ("Mussolini was big stuff in those days...