Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Superman was played with all the high style of Actor-Manager Evans' Broadway hit production of 1947-and seen by perhaps 15 million viewers, roughly 45 times the paying customers who attended all 150 performances. Said Sponsor Joyce C. Hall: "I would rather have a satisfied 8 million in the audience than a dissatisfied 24 million...
...Russian-born garment worker, made his professional debut as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest house of all-television. But Entertainer Kaye found reason to want...
...Anyone can rent similar facilities from the Bell Telephone Co. Neighborhood theaters use them to give showing schedules, brokerage houses for stock quotations. Currently, one of the most successful installations is in Chicago. Anyone who dials BRoadway 5-0707 is greeted by a honey-laden female voice. "Hello, darling, I'm so glad you called," it trills, then invites the listener to meet her that night for a drink at Irv Benjamin's restaurant. Using only word-of-mouth advertising, Irv Benjamin gets 183,000 calls a month, and even with ten machines, the line is almost always...
Speaking of Murder stars Canadian Lorne Green in his first Broadway role since Prescott Proposals, which seems to be the sum total of information around about this inoffensive little thriller, we guess. Tonight, at the Plymouth, 8:30 p.m., tomorrow...
Born. To Marge (32) and Gower (35) Champion, agile, effervescent Broadway and Hollywood dance team; a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Gregg Ernest. Weight...