Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lysistrata has been repeatedly revived (most recently on Broadway in Gilbert Seldes' version, 1930) because: 1). it is a classic; 2) it is smutty; 3) it is antiwar; 4) it is funny. In The Impregnable Women, Author Linklater follows his model with near-sighted intensity. Lady Scrymgeour puts a stop to the war between Great Britain and France with as much zeal and dispatch as Lysistrata put a stop to the war between Athens and Sparta. The Impregnable Women is less light-headed than either Lysistrata or Author Linklater's earlier books. It exhibits his glib facility...
Little Miss Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox) pits Shirley Temple's curls and dimples against the lengthy, dour countenance of Edna May Oliver. To win over a fitful Manhattan millionairess is child's play for Shirley, who has spent her precocious career winning over a variety of toughs, misanthropes, hard-hearted colonels and capricious sea captains...
...Little Miss Broadway, Shirley is a high-spirited orphan always on the point of breaking into a tap routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...
...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
...Early Life of Henry Aldrich (Thurs. 8 p.m. NBC-Red). Comedienne Gertrude Lawrence, Ezra Stone in a sketch based on characters of the Broadway high-school farce, What a Life...