Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have spread all over while others are downright chaotic. In non-Equity theaters, for instance, the actors and actresses often paint and build the scenery, cook for the company, and usher before performances. Somehow, out of the fantastically long working hours and shoestring budgets, many first-class shows emerge. Rural audiences are usually sympathetic toward the barnstormers, and often enjoy what Broadway audiences would consider unpolished...
Soon the Dramatic Muse will be able to leave New York and pitch her tent by the rural wayside for the summer, content in the knowledge that she's got at least one good revue to her credit this season. The Hartmans, Grace and Paul, are back again in a new intimate revue, and it's one that's a pleasure to watch all the way. "Tickets, Please!" has a good many features to commend it, and a full list of the credits would read very much like The Playbill...
Like other U.S. cities, Brooklyn in those days was plagued by bugs. The shy and decorative native birds did not like city life. As U.S. cities expanded, the birds retired to rural refuges, leaving the shade trees and flower gardens defenseless against insects. Officials of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences discussed the problem at length, finally sent to England for an urban bird: the English sparrow...
...division, the West zone lost its principle food source in the East. Partly due to the division, West Germany now has an employment problem: its population has gone up 20 percent, mainly in refugees from the East zone. Lack of urban housing keeps most of the refugees in rural areas where there are few jobs...
...week's end, Godfrey had flown off to the rural quiet of his Virginia farm, where he complained that "the audience often thinks something is dirty that I don't mean to be dirty...