Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earl Wilson, a leading proponent of the female figure, writes a syndicated column on night-life on and off Broadway. It is not known whether he will take the pro or con on the American Girl...
Since the plot idea is, among other things, remarkably wholesome, Taylor felt called upon to spice it for Broadway. The ugly head of sex does not rear, it is dragged in by the playwright with gusto. Obvious burlesque material does not buoy a sinking script, however, it merely brings the level down a little further...
There was even a verse about him; it showed how the '20s felt about Earl Sande, even if it taught a lot of people to mispronounce the name (rhymes with grand). Wrote Columnist Damon Runyon with a Broadway mist...
Comedy in Music is simply Victor Borge, and his one-man show is Broadway's best show so far this season. To a Broadway glutted with solo flights-half of them spills to boot-Borge is almost able to demonstrate that, in terms of entertainers, two's a crowd and even a stooge is a superfluity. Long a success in nightclubs and TV, he fits perfectly into the theater. No more a routine comic than a straight pianist, he has the superb showmanship that can hold audiences by doing anything-or nothing...
...proposition that the theater, the people in it, the magic world of the stage, are glamorous and exciting to everyone, because, deep down, we're all stage-struck too." Deep down, CBS was also struck by the notion that a lavish, hour-long program crammed with famed Broadway names and excerpts from hit shows could do wonders for radio. Stage-Struck (which is shopping for a sponsor) is an exciting guided tour of backstage Broadway, from casting office to dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner's wonderment...