Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With half an hour to go one evening during her vigorous portrayal of Joan of Arc in The Lark, Broadway's Actress Julie Harris (TIME, Nov. 28) threw herself into an all-too-real fall onstage, split her lip in sideswiping a footstool. The curtain was rung down for ten minutes, while three doctors recruited from the audience made temporary repairs on Julie. Then, amidst bravos, she finished the play. After that, Julie had eight stitches made in her lip, was almost as good as new at next day's matinee...
THEATER BUSINESS is good. For the first six months of the 1955-56 season, Broadway theaters have grossed $15.2 million, 16% better than the previous peak...
...Producer-Director John Huston announced plans to film Jean Anouilh's The Lark, using a new English translation of the original script rather than the adaptation by Christopher Fry which played in England or Lillian Hellman's adaptation now playing on Broadway. Huston picked French Star Suzanne Flon (Moulin Rouge) for the Joan of Arc role, now played on Broadway by Julie Harris...
...Berle's years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter about Hollywood, which kept him dangling for nearly a decade: "When I did work in pictures...
When the Leverett House Dramatic Society took it upon themselves to tie three of his one-act plays down to the boards of their dining hall stage, they attempted a hob that has frightened several Broadway producers. On the whole, however, their efforts are quite successful. In one of the plays, they rise to a level very close to professional polish and capability...