Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week he was nestled in the respectable but unusual surroundings of Manhattan's Little Club, a dim East Side spot with some Broadway overtones, for a series of Sunday-midnight concerts. Looking a little like a pudgy, scholarly Satan, Harpsichordist Valenti threaded his way among the tables, mounted the platform and affectionately patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than...
...previous Broadway season had worn such a last-place look that 1953-54 seemed by contrast almost a pennant winner. But on its own merits, it just squeezed into first division: its special contribution, indeed, was its notable number of pretty good evenings. There was nowhere a distinguished new drama or a brilliant new comedy; no new playwright flashed down like a comet to assume the look of a fixed star. Glaringly few established playwrights were represented, and none with distinction. Nor was there a truly good revival-or even much revived...
...nice steady flow of the respectable, the more-than-conventional, the slightly-better-than-average, there was a constant sense of small jets and gushes and freshets, and of a main flow fed by tributary streams. Perhaps more than anything else, 1953-54 was the season when off-Broadway began breathing, however faintly, down Broadway's neck. On lower Second Avenue, without having arisen out of anybody else's ashes, there emerged the Phoenix Theater. Whatever its shortcomings, it gave Manhattan its first really promising repertory-neither Old Guard nor avant-garde-in years. In The Golden Apple...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 32, ball-nosed onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ) turned Broadway actor (King of Hearts') ; and Barbara Kraus, 26, a Manhattan ad-agency production assistant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington...
Died. Joe Laurie Jr., 61, oldtime vaudeville headliner turned radio comedian (Can You Top This?) and Broadway chronicler (Show Biz: From Vaude to Video) ; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...