Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manila junket, said the G-Men, Bondster Buckner had tried to get legislation through Congress which would have helped Philippine Railway Co. To help lobby his bills through, he threw a party for some Congressmen at the Carlton Hotel. To make it a real party, he flew five Broadway cuties down to Washington, including a morsel called Doris ("Peewee") Donalson...
...Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...Frank Gillmore, president of Associated Actors & Artistes of America, proposed that all Broadway shows begin one evening performance each week at 6:30. His reason: to lure suburbanites, "who object to getting home after midnight...
Having made his debut as a professional actor last summer at Cohasset, Mass, (in It Can't Happen Here), Sinclair Lewis joined Actors' Equity Association to make his Broadway debut next spring (in Angela is Twenty-two). Said he: "This will create a major issue. . . . I'll have to go home and say, 'Darling, I don't know whether you can stand this or not, but I joined the A. F. of L.'* This makes me a reactionary." Then publicity-wise Author-Actor Lewis kissed his sponsor (Helen Hayes), posed for pictures, chortled: "Thank...
When "You Can't Take It With You" hit Broadway, it was more or less what the title indicates, a whimsical little comedy, faintly defeatist, emphasizing the fact that shrouds don't have pockets. In the capable hands of Frank Capra, this negative moral was moulded into a powerful eulogy on the value of Friendship. One of the most stirring scenes is that in which Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) is fined $100 and scores of equally penniless friends take up a collection in court...