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...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
Evie, too, was doing pretty well at moneymaking. Gifted with a rich contralto, she frequently sang, without thought of fee, at society charity events. Singing at a heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that he offered her a paying job. So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week. Symington, a lot less famous in those years than his wife, followed her nightclub trail...
Today, in the 52nd contest in this 82-year-old series, Princeton must be given at least an even chance to end Harvard's title hopes once again...
...Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York, will open the 52nd season of the Ford Hall Forum tomorrow with a lecture entitled "Peace With Russia?" All lectures at the Forum begin at 8 p.m. and are open to the public. Other scheduled speakers...
Forbidden Fruit. In 1927, Belle landed in Manhattan-"fifty-two and fat." There was only $2 in her purse, but there was plenty of gin in the old girl yet. Within six months she opened the first of her three speakeasies, in a mansion on East 52nd Street-it was not a saloon, she insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone...