Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much help from the loudspeaker system, which has a tendency to squeal at inopportune moments. That defect, I am afraid, is the only thing which can be improved before Seventh Heaven opens on Broadway...
Whatever Lola Wants (Sarah Vaughan; Mercury). Longtime top Bop Stylist Vaughan gone pop. The song, from Broadway's latest, Damn Yankees (see THEATER), is a fine, cynical tropical slink, and Sarah's husky tone suits it to the floor...
...Henri's pupils moved to New York, Henri followed them. Setting up his own school in upper Broadway's Lincoln Arcade, Henri attracted young art students in droves. Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Oscarwinning Actress Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden), who tries to pull them apart (TIME...
...accomplished rather easily with the sprightly tunes of Dick Brown and Clarence Chang, and the lyrics of Lucy Barry and company. Brown's first song, "Mother Knows Best" is a little too much of the brass musical to be comprehended by children, but adults roar with delight at the Broadway step and brash voices of Maryanne Goldsmith, Sally Shoop, and Anne Adams. Most of the other songs, which were written by Chang, are better suited to infant ears, and Brown redeems himself with the finale--"Flowers Are Dancing...