Word: westports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that honor promptly came last week from Westport, Conn., an arty village lying on the sluggish River Saugatuck where it empties into Long Island sound. There Author Hendrik van Loon's Connecticut Society of Friends of Music announced plans for an initial summer season of six concerts scheduled for this summer. While this six-performance schedule would still leave Westport trailing in competition with such established U. S. summer festivals as the Berkshire, Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Municipal Opera, and Manhattan Lewisohn Stadium, such Westporters as van Loon, Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett hope for glamorous future expansion...
...Westport, Conn...
Albert J. Novak, Jr., Kansas City, Missouri--Westport High School, Kansas City...
...unusual arrangement has been made by Day Tuttle and Richard Skinner of the Westchester Playhouse at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Lawrence Langner, one of the few urban producers who still retains an interest in summer stock, has handed over to them the management of his Country Playhouse at Westport for the summer. Shows which open in the Mt. Kisco theatre will play their second week in the Country Playhouse. Mt. Kisco's and Westport's weekly bills this summer will be something for cinemaddicts as well as theatregoers to see. Henry Fonda will enact The Virginian, Phillips Holmes...
...Besides Westport and Mt. Kisco, more than a score of other summer companies are within reach of the fevered Manhattanite who is looking for an evening's fun in the country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students...