Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innocent Guinea Pig. Things were again stirring excitingly on the drama front. NBC's Producers' Showcase went all-out with a 90-minute color production of the 1934 Broadway play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart. (TIME...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...
...soap opera with a difference: it promises to tell its dramatized stories in six to 15 episodes each, instead of going on endlessly. The current sudsy romance (sponsored by the Borden Co.) deals with Claudia Morgan and Philip Reed, who are supposed to be one of Broadway's better-known husband-and-wife acting teams. Claudia is growing deaf but won't tell her husband, who worries because she is acting peculiarly...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly) and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...