Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf-Astoria reception he hammily bussed the hand of an old friend, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. At a TV session, he was asked if he kisses babies when he goes politicking. His reply: "I like children, I like babies! I can't help kissing babies!"* At week...
...networks are becoming the new money-heavy angels of the Broadway stage. CBS, sole backer of the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady, expects to net an additional $5,000,000 from the recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before...
...long while had Broadway had a more prosperous or pleasing season. At times, during 1955-56, even the more contained critics chose their words like poets -or like pressagents. Where, all too often in years gone by, the jejune was bustin' out all over, this season had a great deal of flavor, and a fair amount of body as well. Even so late as April, when playwriting usually sports its lightest-weight and most ill-fitting clothes, plays still looked neat or showed substance...
Married. Peggy Ann Garner, 24, kittenish cinemingénue (Black Widow), onetime child star (Junior Miss); and Albert Salmi, 28, Broadway actor (End As a Man, Bus Stop); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...they are engaged to be married and he is about to go into battle. Later on, she refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy) go gollygoshing through the love scenes in his second screen role, the audience may reasonably suspect that the French girl has simply been trying, in a tactful way, to say no thanks, buster...