Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's famed Madame Tussaud's all the great characters of history are exhibited in wax. On Broadway this season much the same thing is being done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
HOLLYWOOD -- Fannie Brice, Broadway's "Lady Pagliacci" who won her stage spurs singing the torchiest of all torch songs--"My Man"-- today for the third time in her life lost her man in a divorce court when she was granted a divorce from Billy Rose, pint-sized shown and impresario. The charge was desertion...
This maudlin hocuspocus, together with far too much stunting and propagandizing, slows down the tempo of the show to a very ordinary invalid's walk. If the fabulous invalid survives, it will be thanks more to its own constitution than to the ministrations of Broadway's highest-paid, by-appointment-only play doctors...