Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invited to address the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington as its first "nonpolitical speaker" in ages, Actor Ralph Bellamy, a superb young Franklin D. Roosevelt in Broadway's long-running Sunrise at Campobello, startled the ladies by opening with a political announcement. Said Bellamy forthrightly: "I'm a registered Democrat-but I voted...
Negro Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, 28, whose Broadway hit, A Raisin in the Sun (TIME, March 23), was voted Broadway's best by Manhattan's drama critics, was trapped in an embarrassing predicament. Her play chronicles the many miseries and few joys of a poor Negro family in Chicago's ugly South Side slums. Last week the city of Chicago sued Lorraine and four others in her family for not correcting a long list of building-code violations (bad wiring, rats, falling plaster, etc.) in eight tenements owned by the Hansberrys. Location: the ugly South Side slums...
Elia Kazan, Broadway and Hollywood director and producer...
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...College Louis B. Wright, historian, director Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. L.H.D. Meredith Willson, Broadway composer (Music Man) Mus.D...