Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most recent, as well as the fanciest, published appraisal of Winchell was written for this month's Cosmopolitan by Dorothy Kilgallen, who concludes: "He is a streamlined Aesop spinning the chromium fables of night-time Manhattan, a grey young recording angel writing the fickle legends of Broadway-on a small typewriter, with two fingers...
...actors one unique attraction: they can see themselves act. Its compensatory flaw is that they cannot have an audience while they act. For cinema stars, summer theatres, although the pay is small, have the advantage of allowing them to satisfy their desire for immediate attention without exposing themselves to Broadway dramatic critics whose comments might reduce their cinema earning power. Noteworthy cinemactors of this year's silo season are: Kitty Carlisle in her debut as a straight actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much...
However, heterogeneous repertory theatres in popular resorts like Cape May, N. J., Provincetown, Dennis and Stockbridge, Mass., Newport, R. I., Stony Creek, Conn. and Skowhegan, Me. had shown theatre folk the practicality of pursuing their audiences into rural retreats. Faced with the alternative of roasting their heels on Broadway's hot pavements for three months every year, actors jumped at the chance of performing in anything from tents to churches, for anything from room & board to the revenues which could sometimes be derived from stage-struck vacationists eager to pay for a chance...
...have the exclusive right to produce old or new plays. Class B calls for the same number of Equity members, is restricted to old plays only. This year's silo circuit is scheduling more plays and stars than appear in an average eight months' season on Broadway...
Plays. Instead of trying out new plays, most summer theatres stick to proven hits. Of 75 new plays tried out last year, only nine reached Broadway and three succeeded there. Most popular single item on this summer's barn-belt bills is Mark Reed's Yes, My Darling Daughter, scheduled for at least 100 performances at 25 theatres from Denver, Colo, to Whitefield, N. H. Next are Tovarich, Night Must Fall, Tonight at Eight-Thirty, Let Us Be Gay, Night of January 16 and French Without Tears, all Broadway successes. Other noteworthy plans include Ibsen's Brand...