Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his first Broadway play in 14 years, Saroyan is clearly back at the same old stand, making the same old pitch−but without his onetime showmanship. He was often soupy and boozy about the down-at-heel in the old days; but at his best, as in The Time of Your Life, he had an alcoholic gaiety and verve, and a real knack for brewing instant-vaudeville. The poet in him might slump or the philosopher babble, but the prankster sufficiently triumphed...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...
...Douglas, a former Broadway star and Democratic Congresswoman from California, spoke in New Lecture Hall about our foreign policy as it relates to current problems in Hungary...
Helen Gahagan Douglas, former Broadway star and Democratic representative from California, will be the featured speaker of the Harvard Freedom Council's commemoration of the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, tonight at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall...
Sweet Smell of Success. The rat-rat-tattling of a megalomaniac Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...