Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headed for Broadway in an 88-year-old play, Herod and Mariamne, Katharine Cornell ended its run in Washington last week after four weeks on the road. Though she shares honors with Helen Hayes as Broadway's First Lady, Actress Cornell has not acted there in 18 months...
...Broadway, Maurice Evans' uncut Hamlet, which runs from 6:30 to 11:20 p. m., is no treat for standees. The night the show acquired its first standees Producer Evans was so elated that he invited all four of them to eat as his guests during the dinner intermission...
Everybody knows that Washington Street is Broadway's guinea pig, thus it is superfluous to say that Dwight Wiman's "Great Lady" ran twenty-seven minutes overtime last night, that the first two numbers get the show off to a very slow start, that in several of the chorus numbers the singing is off cue and inaudible, or, that the show "has the makings of" this or that...
...Andrews' secretary, soon will be as well known to businessmen as was Hugh Johnson's "Robbie." She and Paul Sifton serve as buffers against importunate callers, coordinate the various sectors of Wages & Hours. An ex-radical and a chronic dramatist (three of his plays appeared on Broadway), Assistant Sifton is working between times on a new play...
Breeziest, most rambunctious, most irreverent of Broadway's daily critics is the Journal and American's tall, ruddy John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash...