Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor's Island in New York Harbor, the Army's senior cavalryman, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger, 62, retiring as commander of the First Army, reviewed his last honor guard, enjoyed a ticker parade up Broadway to a City Hall reception, then headed west for a family Christmas with his son at Fort Sam Houston, where the general first reported for duty with the old 3rd Cavalry in August...
...launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout the U.S. to the tune of such critical cries from local critics as "thrilling," "stirring...
Married. Nancy Nugent, 19, actress (The Male Animal) and daughter of Elliott Nugent, Broadway actor-playwright-producer; and Francis de Béthencourt, 29, sometime cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Twentieth Century Fox's newest technicolor extravaganza, Bloodhounds of Broadway, should rate as one of the worst musicals of the year. The standard of acting is so poor that any Oscars for the film must go to two sleepy-eyed bloodhounds who meander their way through the very routine Damon Runyon plot--which has such a strong resemblance to the stage show Guys and Dolls that legal action has been started. For the movie's sake it's too bad that the alleged plagiarism wasn't more obvious...
Miss Gaynor scampering around culivens the movie and her songs manage to salvage several scenes, but unfortunately she is often cut short soon after she starts to sing. Her namesake, Mitzi Green, also turns in an adequate performance as a Broadway Big-sister. But Brady's portrayal of the bookie tails to do even partial justice to several situations in the plot which are in trinsically annusing. There is the usual gallery of Run von crecentics, and they are handled little better...