Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Sands, Radcliffe '15, an actress well known on Broadway, has been selected by the Poet's Theatre to play Alcestis, the Thessalian queen who gives her life to save her husband from the vengeance of the gods, in their production of Euripides' tragedy...
...average play's journey from playwright's study to the Broadway stage is all traffic lights, stalled motors, roads closed for repairs, slowing down on hills, running out of gas. Plays, as the old gag puts it. are not written but rewritten; not sold outright but leased around on options. Even a top-ranking author like Ernest Hemingway, with a spot-news play like The Fifth Column-treating of the Spanish civil war-gets jounced around on the rocky road to Broadway. The play, Hemingway's first,* was finished three months ago. Originally Producer Jed Harris...
...Merry Wives of Windsor (produced by Robert Henderson & Estelle Winwood) lasted four performances, Ibsen's The Wild Duck (produced by Henry Forbes) lasted three. With the shining exception of the Mercury Theatre's Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Shakespeare has had hard sledding on Broadway this season. As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor were flops, Coriolanus a middling success in its briefly scheduled Federal Theatre run. The Merry Wives, which was written to order in a fortnight because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love, is creaking farce at best. Last...
...critics who had hidden a smile at Balletmistress Galli's efforts soon began to think that Balanchine was not much better. Although he staged successful ballets in many a Broadway show (On Your Toes, Babes in Arms), Choreographer Balanchine never quite got the spirit of upholstered elegance appropriate to Aïda, or the abandon appropriate to the Bacchanale scene in Tannhäuser. And as pirouetting Bacchanalians, the youthful American Ballet was discouragingly apt to resemble a flock of plucked sparrows. Kindest commentators agreed it was nice, but not quite right...
Battle of Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox). At an American Legion convention, ex-Doughboys Brian Donlevy and Victor McLaglen are pleased to meet tall, dark-haired, full-lipped ex-Strip Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee who sings "I am the Daughter of Mademoiselle from Armentières." When she continues...