Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sons, is reviewed in this issue (see BOOKS). Tom occupied the corner for a year. By day the copy boy buzzer was a continual interruption, but late at night, when the big bullpen was dark except for the ceiling reflections of nearby Broadway's neons, he sat under a desk lamp, pipe-smoking and writing. Fifteen times Tom rewrote his book. Late in the summer of 1954 he quit TIME and went off to the cranberry boglands of New Jersey's Toms River country to live alone in a shack and polish the final version of his Korean...
...Stop is here after a successful stay on Broadway. The comedy by William Inge is now entering its last week in Boston. Matinee at 3:00, tonight...
...Claire Bloom as a kittenish Cleopatra with the claws of a full-grown tiger. Even the supporting roles were graced by top-notchers-Judith Anderson, Cyril Ritchard, Jack Hawkins and Farley Granger. For producer, NBC turned to Anthony Quayle. who had just starred in Marlowe's Tamburlaine on Broadway. Though compressed into 90 minutes, the Shavian comedy kept the refreshing crackle of ideas crisply delivered (the central theme: in 20 centuries man has made no progress save in mechanical ingenuity), and offered a witty appraisal of human strength and weakness. But the TV audience, according to Trendex, gave...
...flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything else about this movie version of the Broadway musical, it will be because they can't tell sweet from saccharine...
...post-Broadway hits still linger for the benefit of provincials. Can-Can, by Cole Porter, isn't offensively risque from the second balcony of the Opera House. Today at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Bus Stop is a comedy of delicate curves with Peggy Ann Garner. Today at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Colonial...