Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most readers, a collection of play reviews will seem as lifeless as a museum place, and about at topical. After the plays have left Broadway and the reviews safely consigned to the morgue, the drama critic would be better off writing an organized criticism of the American theatre, instead of arranging critical tombstones between cloth-bound covers. Eric Bentley, however, has seen fit to publish approximately fifty reviews, apparently in the hope that they will have both literary value and significance for American drama...
...strictly dramatic criticism, however, Bentley's virtues are not so clearly defined. He has been heralded as the precursor of a new era in criticism; at times he poses as a modern Cassandra, decrying the decadence of Broadway; more often he seems to be a crank, who doesn't really care for the theatre...
...Your Toes (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott) is a good deal oftener on its uppers. The musical that in 1936 really put jazz ballet on Broadway, On Your Toes was perhaps from the start pretty much all thumbs where it wasn't nifty footwork. Time has tended to merge the show and the ballet into one, but they are scarcely more alike than Buffalo and Niagara Falls...
...York Times, which has no trouble printing "All the News That's Fit to Print," had considerable trouble last week deciding what nudes are fit to print. When the producers of the Broadway comedy, Reclining Figure, tried to place an ad in the Times illustrated with a line drawing of a reclining nude, a staffer in the ad department said no. Other New York dailies ran the ad as submitted, but in the Times the nude was decorously fitted with a brassiere. At week's end, after taking the matter "under review," the Times allowed...
...sees the ornate Regency sofa, but not what happened on it. Art Director Alfred Junge and Costume Designer Elizabeth Haffenden are in fact the real hero and heroine of this picture. The script (based on the old Clyde Fitch-Richard Mansfield heart-tugger that had four runs on Broadway) just moves the actors briskly from one gorgeous set to the next, and by the time the audience has finished inspecting the splendid costumes and furnishings, it is too late to notice that the scene has, often as not, been grandiosely flubbed...