Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seated before a serving of calf's head in Manhattan's "21" restaurant, Hermione Gingold, old darling of the London comedy stage, who is now playing her first Broadway hit (John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...
...fighter pilot, Nelson, 37, served his apprenticeship on Broadway as a playwright (The Wind Is Ninety) and as an actor and stage manager in a six-year stint with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He thinks the theater and television are on divergent courses. TV, he argues, has a different pace than the stage and infinitely more mobility: "I use three cameras on each show and, in effect, have three prosceniums." TV actors become puppets of the director, since "an actor never knows when a camera might...
...their church's inherited wealth, few of the people of the parish wheel up to the church door in Cadillacs. They come by subway from Brooklyn and by 5? ferry from Staten Island. They journey by bus down Broadway, or from Jersey City through the mephitic Hudson Tubes. And those Manhattanites who can walk to Trinity's six chapels live for the most part in cold-water flats and housing developments, or in slums...
...PAUL'S, at Broadway and Fulton Street, is the oldest public building in the city (Trinity itself has twice been rebuilt), and like its mother church attracts a mixture of local businessmen and tourists on weekdays, subway riders and society on Sundays. Like Trinity's celebrated churchyard, where lie Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton, St. Paul's also has historic associations; George Washington worshiped there when he was in New York...
...CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION, at Broadway and 155th Street, has for nearly a century served a solid, middle-class congregation which still numbers about 2,500, even though neighborhoods near by have deteriorated sufficiently to make it necessary for the police sometimes to provide special protection for members of the congregation. The Chapel of the Intercession, consecrated in 1914, was built by famed Architect Bertram Goodhue, who considered it his best work. In the adjoining cemetery lie Painter-Naturalist James Audubon and Poet Clement Clarke Moore, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas. ST. LUKE'S, on Hudson Street...