Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Broadway heard last summer that two up-&-coming young men were starting a new repertory company, play-goers waited with lively interest but natural distrust to see what Orson Welles, 22, and John Houseman, 35, would do with their Mercury Theatre. One bedrock essential that Welles & Houseman apparently lacked was cash. But after a succession of muffled death-rattles backstage, the Mercury came to its first play's first night. On November 11 it produced Julius Caesar. On November 12 the public was informed that Shakespeare's five-act classic had: 1) been turned into...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...
...Farewell To Arms was adapted by Laurence Stallings, flopped on Broadway...
...Circle (by W. Somerset Maugham; produced by William A. Brady). Revived last week, 17 years after the original Broadway production starring Mrs. Leslie Carter and John Drew, Maugham...
...Broadway show recorded by the original cast with Composer Blitzstein at the piano. What was vastly effective as musical scene painting (TIME, Dec. 13), is noisy & facile as music pure & simple...