Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers of that gum-chewers' sheetlet, the New York Graphic, are gum-chewers. Some of them snuggle the pink-faced tabloid into Park Avenue homes, there to read it in polite seclusion. They have reason: the Graphic's gossip-purveying, scandal-scooping, staccato-styled Monday column, "Your Broadway and Mine...
...Winchell sources of information. Once, it is said, there hung a sign in the New York World office, warning all to tell Winchell nothing. But somehow, Winchell learns. Those interested to know who and his wife are expecting offspring find out in the Graphic's "Your Broadway and Mine" every Monday. When the offspring arrives, its sex is immediately disclosed. When Gossiper Winchell is flayed for a statement, he says "sorry" the next day-but only when serious consequences are threatened. Otherwise, he says nothing...
...last week, Graphic-snugglers were surprised to read: "The Evening Graphic announces the appointment of Louis Sobol as dramatic editor and critic, effective at once. Mr. Sobol will also conduct the column known as 'Your Broadway and Mine.' " Discouraged, they turned to the Times, wherein appeared an advertisement announcing that starting Monday, June 10, Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged...
...racetrack tipster who spotted winning horses with 75% success would be the greatest tipster in history. But a drama critic who forecasts with 75% correctness the financial result of Broadway plays, is only a mediocre seer. Last week Variety published its annual box score of Manhattan theatre critics. Seven of twelve men from the leading dailies made scores of .75 or better...
...famed Manhattan theatres-Daly's and the Century-were last week included in a parcel of real estate bought by Building Brothers Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin. The entire block bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details...