Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the brief span of ten days last spring, for example, Harvard undergraduates produced nine fulllength dramatic performances, ranging in difficulty from a Broadway musical to a Greek tragedy, in Greek. At the same time, teams of CRIMSON editors were gathering information in the South for a twelve-page feature survey of university racial integration. WHRB was already readying its transmitters for adaptation to frequency modulation, the Debate Council had four teams travelling through the mid-west, and forty-five singers of the Glee Club were in rehearsal for an eight week summer concert tour of Europe...
...operatic roles, singing and acting them in a style that had his admirers reaching far back into opera's Golden Age for comparisons. When he left the Metropolitan Opera at 55 in 1948 to appear with Mary Martin in South Pacific, Pinza slipped into the role of Broadway matinee idol with such ease that many postwar fans were scarcely aware that he had ever done anything else. After a stroke forced him to give up singing last summer, he launched enthusiastically into other plans, hoped for a straight dramatic career on Broadway. But that chance never came...
...often a fighting word in the theater, can also have its savory delights. Two blue-ribbon samples: Mickey Rooney and the late George M. Cohan, Broadway's celebrated Jack-of-all-theatrics. Last week, serving up a double helping, NBC presented Rooney as Cohan in Mr. Broadway, a 90-minute biographical spectacular with all the trimmings...
...easy to understand the relief it would give a reviewer to be able to pin some sort of label on the film. The director, Jack Garfein, and the scriptwriter, Calder Willingham--who reworked his own 1947 novel and his 1953 Broadway play, both called End As a Man-- appear infuriatingly unwilling to commit themselves about what they are doing. All that can be said with complete confidence is that, in a style which captures much of the spontaneity of a really first-rate documentary, they present a story which centers on the career of one Jocko De Paris, a cadet...
Married. Shelley Winters, 34, tough blonde actress of stage (A Hatful of Rain) and screen (A Place in the Sun); and Anthony Franciosa, 28, tantrum-tossing Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain); she for the third time, he for the second; in Carson City...