Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunter) was a success in London, where the cast-including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Irene Worth-was dazzling. On Broadway, where the cast is merely good, the play's chances seem slighter. A prettily draped Dorsetshire study of has-beens and never-weres, a Chekhov-flavored and slightly watery custard, A Day by the Sea is often nicely written, sometimes neatly observed. But it shows no very personal talent or original insight...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, William Powell (TIME, July...
...career began, nine years ago as a mime in Jean-Louis Barrault's Paris company, has already made triumphal tours in Italy, Western Germany and Scandinavia. By week's end, he was the fashionable thing for New Yorkers to see. He was preparing to move up to Broadway for another two-week run, CBS-TV wanted him for the Ed Sullivan show, but NBC-TV got him first for a Spectacular, and he was all set to go on a brief tour of the U.S. and Canada...
When he started writing "Dream Street," a once-a-week Broadway column, for the New York Daily News in 1951, Drama Critic Robert M. (for McPhierson) Sylvester saw little future for Broadway columnists. The migration to the suburbs, he reasoned, was not only killing off nightclubs but the demand for warmed-over café gossip as well. Columnist Sylvester was too pessimistic. When busy Telecaster Ed Sullivan cut his columns to two-a-week last May, the News upped "Dream Street" to five-a-week. By last week, it was syndicated in 30 papers...
...Street" is booming because Columnist Sylvester, unlike most of his competitors, lays no claim to omniscience, peddles no phony inside dope, and conducts no esoteric feuds. He cheerfully admits that "I have no pipeline to the Kremlin and no idea what Congress is going to do." He thinks a Broadway column should be "entertaining, give people a laugh." To do so, he serves his readers a dry Manhattan-four-parts fun to one-part reporting. Now a balding 48, Sylvester covers a bright-light beat that ranges from the East Side Chinese Laundromat called "Helpee Selfee" to the West Side...