Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Guatemalan party flew to Manhattan, where, based at the Waldorf-Astoria, the visiting President attended a special birthday Mass (he turned 41 last week) at St. Patrick's Cathedral, breakfasted with Francis Cardinal Spellman, got showered with ticker tape on lower Broadway, received honorary degrees from Columbia and Fordham, hustled through a round of conferences with such U.S. notables as Ralph Bunche, James A. Farley and United Fruit President Kenneth Redmond. At week's end the visitors were off on a U.S. tour that would include a friendly talk with Ike in Denver and the Vanderbilt...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...Bourgeois Sentilhomme (by Molière) was the opening bill of a momentous Broadway engagement; for the first time in its illustrious 275-year history, the Comédie Françise was performing (in French) on U.S. soil. It was fitting that the Comédie should raise its first Broad way curtain on something by France's most famous playwright; it was, on the whole, wise that it chose from Molière something so relatively familiar and so lightly entertaining as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Far from the great Molière of Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois...
Died. Anthony Ross, 49, actor of the screen (The Country Girl), TV and stage (the original Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie); of a heart attack in his sleep, after completing a performance of his featured role, the boozy professor in the current Broadway hit Bus Stop; in Manhattan...
...past, Godot never appears and the dialogues about boredom become more persuasive by the minute. Even allowing for the innovations in technique, I found Godot on evening of baggy-pants comedy and penny-dreadful philosophy with little power, wit, or charm. It is, however, being considered for an off-Broadway production, so I am overruled again...