Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zealous amateur scholar it is unthinkable, for reasons not always clear, that Dramatist William Shakespeare should have written his own plays. Some have preferred to credit Sir Francis Bacon, others the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Rutland or the Earl of Derby. Some 20 years ago a Broadway pressagent named Calvin Hoffman dug up another old theory: the true author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof of this...
...swart Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than the rule of Prince Rainier. Filling other rows were the aging, wheelchaired Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum, the French Academy's Andre Maurois, Broadway's soignée Ilka Chase, and Jack Kelly's pals from Philly...
Practically unrecognizable in his Okinawan getup, Cinemactor Marlon Brando looked uncharacteristically scrutable on a movie location in Japan, where M-G-M is making a film version of Broadway's long-run (1,020 performances) hit, Teahouse of the August Moon...
...Broadway production is enormously the richer for Comic Bert Lahr's brilliant playing of the more confused of the two tramps. He endows the role with a clown's wistful bewilderment, evocative capers and broad but beautifully precise touches of comedy. Far more than Beckett, Lahr suggests all dislocated humanity in one broken-down man. Others in the cast, however competent, seem a little too studied grotesque or Middle European in style. None the less, Godot has its own persistent fascination. For once in a way, at least, in a theater rife with pointless hurry-scurry, they distinctly...
...both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting Yogi Berra in a ballet from the Broadway hit, Damn Yankees (he uneasily swung a bat while dancers pranced about him), and Molly Goldberg in a locker room (she clucked at the sight of baseball spikes: "Look at the poor boys' shoes-the nails are coming through the soles...