Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timeless piece of vaudevillian anthropology. The Skin of Our Teeth, first produced in 1942 (and greeted by a mixed chorus of cheers and catcalls-plus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame Helen Hayes and Producer-Director-Playwright George Abbott as mankind's eternal Mr. and Mrs.; Musicomedienne Mary Martin as Mr. and Mrs. maid and humanity's eternal hedonist, raising hell in halcyon eras and doubting heaven in adversity...
...insanely, impersonates Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart. Partner Dean Martin is better as a straight comic than as a singer. Otherwise, as the team goes through some tired slapstick movie routines, e.g., a chase on water skis, moviegoers may conclude that Martin & Lewis are headed for the fate that befell Abbott & Costello: all they do is make money...
Confusion. Here, as recorded by Reporter Salisbury, the tour produced the neatest bit of confusion since Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott, "Who's on first?" The Met's American Gallery Curator Robert B. Hale explained to Molotov's interpreter, Oleg Troyanovsky, that The Flying Box was the work of 27-year-old John Hultberg (TIME, May 2), an "expressionist-abstractionist." The painter, Hale added, was once a guard at the Metropolitan. Troyanovsky translated to Molotov: "He was formerly of the avant-garde...
...audiences who pack the theater eight times weekly to cheer her efforts. As a seductress with a sense of humor, Lola may seriously disappoint her Satanic master in the play, but as the most incendiary star on Broadway, Gwen Verdon does fine by her real-life boss, Director George Abbott, a genius of the darkling hours often credited with a magic as mysterious as Satan...
...girl in high corrective boots. She would rather wander through the Fulton fish market than sit signing autographs at Sardi's, and she is probably happiest of all when she is backstage at Yankees, feeling herself a part of the show's color and action. Says Director Abbott: "She's a complete jewel-quick, indefatigable, cooperative and objective. She knows what's good for the show and what's good for her. She'll rehearse for hours and never complain. And though she has a mind of her own, she never questions any decision...