Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER since they first appeared in the magazine last fall. TIME LISTINGS have been enthusiastically received. The editors' choice of books, movies, TV shows, Broadway and off-Broadway and on-tour plays have been both a guide for readers and a closely studied report card for pros. In keeping with the season, the department has put on a straw hat, and this week's LISTINGS has a selection of the most interesting summer theater offerings from Maine to California...
Porgy and Bess (Samuel Goldwyn; Columbia). The sound stage burned down. The leading man almost quit. The original director was fired. But Producer Sam Goldwyn kept plugging away at his long-awaited, much-ballyhooed screen version of George Gershwin's durable Broadway musical. By the time the show was in the can, it had cost more than $7,000,000 to produce-and it may cost almost as much again to promote and distribute. If Sam's past performance (The Best Years of Our Lives, Guys and Dolls) is anything to go by, he will probably...
...Jinks became a hit. Long lines of ticket buyers curled across Herald Square from the box office of the Garrick Theater on Manhattan's 35th Street. Her name went up in lights on the marquee, and for more than half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white flicker of TV in turn haunted the movies. But wherever actors worked at their trade...
Tall, russet-haired, regal of bearing, Ethel spoke to all ages. Her elders admired her art; her pre-World War I contemporaries copied her manner of speech, the way she walked, even the proud tilt of her head.. She belonged not to Broadway or to Hollywood, but to the country. For Ethel Barrymore became a star in an era when no star stayed put. A few months in Manhattan were always followed by tours to other cities-and all were equally important...
Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An earnest effort to show that even though the network dropped the Voice of Firestone, it can still put on an exceedingly pleasant pop concert. With Metropolitan Baritone Theodor Uppman, Soprano Elaine Malbin, Pianist Earl Wild, Broadway Songstress Jacquelyn McKeever and Comedienne Alice Ghostley...