Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question the statement that the features of Olivier's Richard III were modeled "on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I." Methinks I espied Sid Caesar peeking under the ebony locks...
...Manhattan on the night of March 12 Jesus de Galindez wound up his lecture in Hispanic-American civilization at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, dismissed the students, started down a dark walk toward the subway station at Broadway and 116th Street and vanished. This week, despite a continuing search by New York detectives and a lookout by the cops of 13 states, Galindez was still missing...
...lapsed from its usual pattern of filmed shows to try a live hour-long Spectacular, Springtime, U.S.A. It is a Broadway truism that Helen Hayes is so gifted that she could even make the reading of the Manhattan phone book an exciting experience. ABC confounded Broadway and Helen by handing her a script as heavy as the phone book and twice as dull...
...book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and George Weiss) recalls the wag who wondered what would have happened historically had Plymouth Rock landed on the Pilgrims. For Mr. Wonderful much less suggests Nightclub Artist Sammy Davis Jr. finally landing on Broadway than Broadway landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame...
...this semibiographical account of how, with his father and uncle, Sammy reached the big time, he loses a certain edge from the show's brassy diffuseness, a certain authority from its lack of focus. He would very likely come off best on Broadway in the main slot of a revue. In any case, he is not well served in this jerry-built gag show, Broadway's latest example of burning down a house to roast...