Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beside such stark drama, the rest of the TV week had a trivial look. NBC's Producers' Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan...
Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan...
...Merit, on Broadway, came in most sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...
...Littlest Revue wound up the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre's season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands in urgent need of witty sketches and catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There...
...Mama Girl and Papa Boy are divorced, and Papa Boy lives in Paris with Twink's brother, Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Cause of the split, it seems, is that Mama Girl cannot put her mind to being a Wife Woman when her heart is set on being an Actress Broadway...