Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosemary Clooney does not have a "stage" voice. Like Dinah Shore and half a dozen other microphone buggers in this era of the electronic vocal, Rosemary has been turned down for Broadway shows. But by all the signs, her steady success is assured so long as the ballad business lives, as it lives today, by making records...
...part of the '40s, music publishers got along well enough without much help from the record industry. In the early days, such a hit as Glow Worm might sell two or three million copies of sheet music for them. After it was launched in vaudeville or a Broadway show, its principal salesman was a fast-talking song plugger whose job it was to visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might...
...Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers' poetic play about a twelve-year-old girl's growing pains; with Julie Harris, Ethel Waters and Brandon de Wilde in their original Broadway parts (TIME...
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster (TIME...
Donald K. David, Dean of the graduate school of Business Administration, last night denied a report by Broadway columnist Walter Winchell that he would succeed Paul E. Hoffman as president of the Ford Foundation...