These Are Mad Days for People of Summer Theaters
New York reports on the scramble by impresarios to assemble summer theater programs across 150 revived barns and town halls. Lewis Harmon in Clinton Connecticut projects six of nine weeks with attractions blending recent Broadway hits and lighter comedies, aiming to revive the old model of strong adult audiences and solid tryouts for new scripts.
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Mississippi
Tennessee Ernie
Capitol
Patti Page
Mercury
Patti
Miss Page
Ray Anthony
Skyliners
Columbia
Guy Mitchell
Television reshapes show business as studios explore video
A sweeping look at how television and video are upending Hollywood. ABC CBS United Paramount Theaters talks and merges signal a new era as movie studios eye film production and large screen theaters. Phonevision trials show home viewing at lower cost, boosting demand. Dream Girl on Broadway extends run with Judy Holiday through August.
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Reviews of New Records by Joseph H. Kitchin
RCA Victor selects about 30 historic 78 rpm performances for Collector's Issue reissues. Handful available include the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto with Stokowski, the Toscanini Beethoven Seventh, Schnabel Emperor Concerto, and Horowitz Tchaikovsky B flat Minor. Also covers Capitol Telefunken LPs Mozart Overture and Wolf Italian Serenade, plus Dukas Sorcerer's Apprentice and Gretry Cephale et Pocris Suite.
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Artur Schnabel
Frederick Stock
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Horowitz
Capitol-Telefunken
Mozart
Hugo Wolf
Berlin Philharmonic
Hans von Benda
Joseph Keilberth
German Philharmonic
Prague
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The Trouble Marta Toren Has Had with Her Eyes
Swedish star Marta Toren speaks of her famous eyes that sparked tags like Eye-Appeal Girl and The Eyes. She recalls a 1940s screen test arranged by Edwin Blum that found Universal International signing her after she stared into the camera. Toren aims for adult love stories akin to Garbo.
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Filmland
Royal Dramatic Academy
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Marta Toren Seeks Americanized Roles and Marriage
European actress Marta Toren, known for action oriented films like Casbah and Spy Hunt, longs to play an American. She has begun citizenship papers and lives in Beverly Hills with a dog and housekeeper. She avoids the Swedish colony to embrace hamburger over smorgasbord and reads poetry into a tape recorder to hear her accent.
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Marta
Beverly Hills
Preview at Paramount Tuesday Night Showcases Technicolor Action
A second sneak preview at the Paramount Theater is set for Tuesday night. The technicolor action feature begins at 9 30 PM during a regular double bill with Champagne for Caesar ending at 7 50 PM.
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