Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scopes, whose trial has been dramatzed into the Broadway hit "Inherit the Wind," was defended by the noted trial lawyer Clarence Darrow. William Jennings Bryan, in his last public appearance, was the state's prosecutor...
Seldom had the talented minds of Hollywood or Broadway set a stage with more artful care. The title of the production was The Case of Colonel Nickerson, and for weeks the U.S. Army's drumbeaters were out proclaiming the coming attractions. West Pointer John C. Nickerson Jr., 41, World War II combat soldier (Silver Star, Bronze Star) and postwar missile .specialist, was risking 46 years' imprisonment as he faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone...
...defender when New York Herald Tribune Critic John Crosby wrote of his TV longevity: "There is a great lesson in this for all of us. But I'm damned if I know what it is." Said New York's quicktempered Daily News, which employs Sullivan as a Broadway columnist: "The celebration was cattily clawed over and damned with faint praise by an alleged television and radio critic calling himself Crosby or Crosley or something...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...role of Magda was played by Patricia Neway, who won awards for it six years ago in New York. She is a superb actress as well as a consummate singer, and I found her performance here even more exalted than on Broadway. All the other singers were fine, notably Norman Adkins, Ruth Kobart, Lydia Summers and Leon Lishner. Chandler Cowles' staging was first-rate; and Evan Whallon's handling of the orchestra was expert, except for letting the piano play too loudly...