Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thin Shows. For a man wrapped up in TV, Scheuer holds oddly highbrow credentials. He studied political science at Yale and the London School of Economics, was Broadway co-producer of Christopher Fry's first play in the U.S., 1930's flop. A Phoenix Too Frequent. He learned about TV from the inside as an associate director at CBS. Says he: "I sincerely feel that I'm in a position to help raise television standards." Unfortunately, TV's standards tend to drag down Scheuer's own; simply finding five or six shows to recommend each...
Divorced. By Denholm Elliott, 35, British actor of screen (The Heart of the Matter, The Cruel Sea) and stage (Broadway's Ring Round the Moon): Virginia McKenna. 26, blonde British cinemactress (The Cruel Sea, The Barretts of Wimpole Street); after three years of marriage, no children; in an uncontested action, on grounds of adultery with strapping Cinemactor Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers; in London...
...when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant, single theme, which Biographer Seuphor aptly calls "a kind of gigantic, plastic fugue, which it took twenty-nine...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams...
Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...