Word: boston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush...
Split Coming. Almost as suddenly as it arose, the San Francisco Renaissance split. Still and Rothko departed for the East Coast. Dean of those who remained was Boston-born David Park, and in 1951 he abruptly turned his back on abstract expressionism and won an award in the San Francisco Annual for a painting, Boys on Bicycles, in which the boys were boys, and the wheels were round. "As you grow older," Park said, "it dawns on you that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want...
...Summer Place (Warner), based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in revenue. The second family pays room and board to the first family, which is too poor to refuse the money but too proud to enjoy taking...
Newsstands all over Boston were mobbed yesterday by people trying to buy out-of-town newspapers as the local branch of the International Typographical Union continued its strike...
...addition to Radcliffe girls, Vlasenko, with Miss Kirienko, and engineer Igor Makarov won the friendship of the off-Broadway cast of "An Enemy of the People" which closed its Boston run last Sunday. The cast invited the three Russians and this writer to a party on Saturday night, and from midnight to 3 a.m., the whole party was "Russian" in tone, with Miss Kirienko singing several ballads, and Vlasenko charming the gathering with stories of the Soviet Union, and in interpreting questions to Miss Kirienko...