Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, against the Detroit Red Wings, Worsley and the Rangers showed both how good and how bad they can be. For two periods the "Broadway Blues" were helpless. The Red Wings scored three times with embarrassing ease. But the Rangers came back to score five times with a demonstration of superb hockey. Lome Worsley was beaten only once more, on a desperate last-minute play. The game ended Rangers 5, Red Wings...
First Love. Kingsley, who won his Pulitzer Award with his first play (Men in White) only five years after graduating from Cornell, will not let his newfound passion for TV keep him away from Broadway: "The theater is the Tiffany of the industry and will always be my first love. In fact, I won't do any serious thinking about TV until I've finished the play I'm working on now-a contemporary tragedy. I imagine my first TV offering will be a rewrite of one of my old plays, perhaps Dead...
...Manhattan flounced Marilyn. She incorporated herself while skeptics snickered. She studied "to improve myself" under Director Lee Strasberg at Manhattan's Actors' Studio. She caused near-riots when she appeared at Broadway openings...
...Summer Long," his most recent play failed on Broadway although the critics and a select audience praised it. He was content to blame himself for the plays inability to "take them from behind their television sets in the Bronx." It just wasn't theatrical enough, Anderson explained, or perhaps, he admitted, failure came from not having a big star and a name director...
...those in the audience who see Broadway as a rather one sided balance between commercialism and art, Mr. Anderson--now on the road to success--must have appeared informative but a little disappointing. He said nothing about repertory theater groups or productions of experimental drama. As long as the theater was full Anderson didn't seem to be overly concerned with who was coming and who was being deprived of theater because of high prices. "It's unfortunate" was about all he could muster. The problems of the playwright as a serious artist were passed over by the glib remark...