Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until a close-cropped nurse and a middle-aged baritone premiered a new musical a few blocks up the street, Kiss Me, Kate was Broadway's brightest show in late '48. But while Kate continued to prosper, the critics were no longer so enchanted with its blend of Elizabethan and backstage comedy. The show, they carped, had none of Rogers and Hammerstein's poignancy, bitter-sweet romance, or delicacy...
...fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging from Milton Berle to Red Buttons, and is doing the words and music for a proposed Broadway musical. In his spare time, he appears once a week on TV's What's My Line? and five times a week on the Steve Allen Show (weekdays, 11:20 p.m.) over Manhattan's station WNBT. Such wide activity has its problems. One of them: Allen finds...
...performance is given on the show seen by the fewest people, his 40-minute, late-at-night program telecast locally in New York City. In four months he has built up the same sort of fanatic following that once belonged to Jerry Lester and Dagmar. But, unlike the frenzied Broadway Open House, the Steve Allen Show is often relaxed to the point of torpor. Steve sits at a table, fidgeting with his mail, complaining about the public-address system, or asking unimportant questions of his off-camera crew. Sometimes he has his barber in to give him a haircut...
...Bierwirth asked Vice President Robert E. Hulse, National's chemical chief: "If you had money and wanted to go into the chemical business, which branch of it would you pick?" When Hulse answered "petrochemicals," Bierwirth went upstairs from his Manhattan office at 120 Broadway to see an old friend, William G. Maguire, chairman of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. Within half an hour they made a deal to set up a jointly owned company. National Petro-Chemicals Corp. They picked Tuscola, Ill. as the plant site because it is a key junction of Panhandle Eastern's pipe lines...
...does not know to be "live." Nevertheless, the film (owing something to the superior mystery novel by Max Simon Ehrlich on which it is based) at times conveys amusingly how life looks through the other end of the television tube. And in Actor Forsythe, now playing in the Broadway hit, The Teahouse of the August Moon, it has a fine, melancholy hero...