Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students were continually crossing Broadway near Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall while the air raid sirens sounded, and they deliberately disobeyed orders to take cover, Burke said. "Apparently the fellows get a kick out of laughing in the face of the law," he added...
...ballad, "Hey, There," there is a more unique coupling. Raitt booms the tune into a dictaphone, allowing one of those duets with himself which now pervade popular music. This technique is not new to composers Adler and Ross who have had more experience in Tin Pan Alley than on Broadway. Their songs, including "I'm Not At All In Love," "Her Is," and "I Love You More," will probably do double duty both in the show and on the Hit Parade...
...securities. Eddie Foy, Jr., charged with providing much of the comedy, does well indeed when he doesn't reach too far into burlesque for his material. And since--with Mae Barnes turning the tide for By the Beautiful Sea-- this looks like a big year for fat women on Broadway, Reta Shaw is on hand to bolster numbers like "I'll Never Be Jealous Again...
...people are not overdrawn. In his chronicle of one woman, Playwright Funt is examining a citified, slick, aware, pedigreed-dog-eat-dog way of life. It needs more vibrantly expressive treatment in stage form; yet it rings truer, even as it stands, than most things that adorn the Broadway stage...
Died. Fritzi Scheff, 72, Vienna-born prima donna and the toast of Broadway at the turn of the century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...