Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside the dress suit and went looking for work. After bit parts in twelve of the quickest flops in Broadway history, he applied to the major networks for a job in radio. They turned him down on the grounds that his voice was "too cold to appeal to women listeners." Then the full-dress suit came in handy. It got him a spot broadcasting gossip from nightclubs for an independent station...
Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield, in Manhattan to star in Broadway's spoof of fame in Hollywood, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, confided that her heart really goes out to the lower animals. Sighed she wistfully: "All I have now is a great Dane, a Chihuahua, three cats named Sabina. Romulus and Ophelia, and a rabbit known as Bublitchki. I had a pink poodle, Bon Bon, which just died after we had it dyed pink to match my pink Jaguar ... I also had some mice, but somebody let them out in Atlantic City...
...Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where it toured, and back home in Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth...
...Tiffany character and tradition to preserve. The company's elegant pattern was fashioned by Charles Tiffany, then a 25-year-old country storekeeper from Connecticut who borrowed $1,000 from his mill-owner father, and with a friend set up a fine stationery and pottery shop on lower Broadway. Though the partners took in only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought all it could, including Marie Antoinette's diamond...
Died. Lemuel Ayers, 40, top stage (Pajama Game, Camino Real) and screen (Meet Me in St. Louis) set and costume designer, Broadway co-producer (Kiss Me Kate) ; after long illness; in Manhattan...