Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tunes whistled afterwards in the lobby. A show so lightly strummed, so insouciantly strutted, so frilled and beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger and no rum, those, after all, are largely its exports. From at least a musicomedy standpoint, Lena Horne, gay colors, winning tunes-and even shiftless lie-in-the-sun librettos-are its tourist attractions...
Painting in two distinct styles, Sylvia Carewe on one hand picks up her beat from the visual excitement and energy of Manhattan, transposes it into semiabstract scenes, e.g., an air view of Broadway done with splash and sparkle. With her other (and heavier) hand, she trowels on paint inches thick, won French critics' praise for a "violent, colorful art, in hard contrasts, not exempt from cold lyricism...
...Broadway in Paris. Marcia will find that another U.S. woman painter has already been in Paris. Sylvia Carewe, the 5 ft.-tall, 43-year-old wife of Carter's Little Liver Pills Executive Marvin Small, had a solo show at the Left Bank gallery of Katia Granoff last week and received critics' salutes rarely fired off for visiting talents. She also sold ten of her 22 canvases at prices ranging from $500 to $1,500. After 14 years of painting, nine of regular showing from Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. to Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...Joey. Hollywood has oversanitized the fun-and-gaminess of the Broadway musical, but Frank Sinatra saves the show (TIME...
...That I can write better plays than most of those on Broadway I have no doubt--God help me if I can't--but to write such filthy, sexy twaddle, rot, and bunkum as this, I must cast all conscience to the winds. Well, I can and will do even that, for money, money, money...