Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sliced paper-thin for the stage, and acted in an emotional treble by Cinemactress Jennifer Jones (making her Broadway debut), Isabel seemed largely pushed about by the plot. The whole play was Henry James glimpsed from a train window in the rain; only here or there emerged a recognizable face or voice...
Lunatics and Lovers (by Sidney Kingsley) represents a new venture-into farce -for the author of Men in White, Dead End and Detective Story. But, though it certainly has its good points, there is nothing new about Lunatics and Lovers itself. The scene is a farce-hallowed Broadway hotel suite sprinkled with hotel sweeties. People constantly enter and exit, there are confabs and wisecracks, phone calls and flunkeys and cops. Some of the characters are crooked, others are crocked; the talk is extremely lowdown, and the lust unbounded. Nothing could be socially less conventional or theatrically more...
Witness for the Prosecution (by Agatha Christie) is Broadway's first really bright evening of crime since Dial "M" for Murder. In an age of dwindling stage whodunits (there aren't even many bad ones), the expert Miss Christie has fetched up another of her tidy yarns, tossed in a finely conducted English courtroom trial, and has then, when all is over, overturned it all with not one shattering twist but three...
Married. Dixie Dunbar, 36, onetime Broadway dancing star (Yokel Boy) whose legs have more recently been seen dancing beneath the pack of Old Golds on TV commercials; and Robert M. Herndon, motion-picture executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...SEED, by William March, told the horror story of a little monster touched with congenital sin, a pigtailed murderer only eight years old. It was done with quiet skill by an underrated U.S. writer who died within the year. This week it appeared on Broadway in an expert dramatization by Maxwell Anderson (see THEATER...