Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the networks putting on more dramatic shows than ever before, U.S. TV may soon be duplicating the success of British TV drama, which has already given four successful plays to the London stage: Anastasia, Dial "M" for Murder (also a Broadway hit), Morning Departure and The Happiest Days of Your Life...
...colleges hunt jobs the wrong way? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising director of Manhattan's Gimbels department store ("Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels") thinks they do. Last week, speaking in Manhattan to the deans and placement directors of 100 women's colleges, Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, who can make Broadway slang sell girdles, gave them some breezy advice on job-hunting...
Kiss Me Kate (MGM) might be subtitled "The Taming of the Show." Based on the Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base...
...Broadway show came excitingly to life because the audience felt itself transported through time to Shakespeare's Padua. The film merely tries to carry the audience back to old Broadway, but somehow, at the final curtain, it is still esthetically blundering around somewhere on the far side of the George Washington Bridge...
Handsome Singer Keel, who appears to be a sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school of musi-comedy, has not only a fine chesty baritone but the chest to go with it. As a blonde actress who plays a petulant Kate in a reddish wig. Kathryn Grayson pouts prettily but looks as though she is never quite sure...