Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...Puccini was no stranger to Broadway. He borrowed from Belasco plays for Madama Butterfly and The Girl of the Golden West...
...Girl from Nantucket (book by Paul Stanford & Harold Sherman; music by Jacques Belasco; lyrics by Kay Two-mey). Offering the season's most cranked-out tunes, most threadbare gags, most feeble-minded smut, and strangest notion of a ballet, The Girl from Nantucket rated -and got from Manhattan reviewers-the critical equivalent of a well-aimed flyswatter...
Rhythms for Hymns. Ruth St. Denis was a Belasco dancer in 1902 when she saw a figure of the Egyptian goddess Isis in a cigar-store window, and turned to oriental dancing. In 1914 she married Ted Shawn, a Methodist divinity student. They explored native American dancing, trained such successors as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
...last fall Dorothy and Howard Baker's Trio struggled-because of its Lesbian subject matter (a young girl enslaved by a French woman professor and at length set free by her love for a young man)-to find a Broadway theater (TIME, Jan. 8). Finally lodged at the Belasco, it played there undisturbed for two months. Then, suddenly, New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss refused to renew the Belasco's license unless Trio closed. Trio closed...