Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their glossaries for light on "strip-tease" or "meat show," they may wonder why, for a time, the theatre harped on human frailties- Follies, Vanities, Scandals-and then suddenly ceased to harp. They may perhaps write learned, ingenious essays describing the rise and fall of the morality play on Broadway, never dreaming that what they chronicled was the rise and fall of the musical show...
Biological laboratories. Institute of Geographical Exploration. Randall Hall--home of the University Press, printers of examination papers, Harvard pamphlets, and authorized literary volumes. Quincy Street, North of Broadway...
Quincy Street, South of Broadway...
...Daughters", at the Metropolitan, which stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor to be acquired by the movies this year. On the same program is "Campus Confessions" with Betty Grable and Hank Luisetti, Stanford's basketball miracle...
Because he owed her $40,000 under a separation agreement, Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, Broadway promoter, was sued in Manhattan by his wife, onetime Follies Girl Peggy Fears. Said his sworn counter-complaint: "She tried to compel me to associate with her." Mourned Peggy Fears in Hollywood: "I'm down to my last string of pearls...