Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak hours, drama audiences will average an estimated 23 million viewers per play, and much more than that for touted scripts. By year's end, well over 1,000 live teledramas will have been shown. How staggering these facts are becomes plain on comparison with those of the Broadway theater: there are rarely more than 60 plays a season, most of them duds, and the total long-run audience of a smash hit seldom rises to 4% of the audience of an average TV drama...
Married. Eileen Jean ("Walda") Winchell, 28, onetime Broadway actress (Dark of the Moon), daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell; and California Industrialist Hyatt von Dehn, 46; she for the second time, he for the third (his second: Singer-Actress Ginny Simms); in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Died. Margo Jones, 41, founder and managing director of the Dallas Theatre-in-the-Round, Broadway producer (Summer and Smoke}, director (Joan of Lorraine); of uremic poisoning; in Dallas...
...Very, Very Popular (20th Century-Fox) is a standard recipe whose one surprise ingredient is sauce, supplied by Broadway Kootch-Dancer Sheree (Hazel Flagg) North. The film was written, produced and directed by Nunnally (How to Marry a Millionaire) Johnson, which practically guarantees that it is fast, light and pleasantly funny...
...fire turned the merry partnership to ashes. Their Broadway Theatre Comique burned to the ground in the winter of 1884. Harrigan accused Hart's brother-in-law of quitting his night watchman's post early. Hart upbraided Harrigan because Harrigan's father had allowed their $30,000 fire-insurance policy to lapse...