Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation, Bookie "Numbers" Foster (Scott Brady) and his hypochondriac sidekick, "Poorly" Sammis (Wally Vernon) wind up in Georgia backwoods country, where they adopt a hillbilly girl (Mitzi Gaynor). In short order the pretty hillbilly becomes a dancing star at Dave the Dude's nightspot and horse parlor on Broadway. It takes just a little while longer for Numbers, spurred on by Mitzi's affection, to decide to go straight...
Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...
Just a week after Paris' reigning theatrical couple had scored on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 24), it was Athens' turn. Heading the National Theater of Greece, Katina Paxinou and Alexis Minotis arrived for a two-week run, enacting (in modern Greek) the title roles of Sophocles' Electro, and Oedipus...
Actress Paxinou-already known to Broadway for several performances in English-made an impressive though hardly an inspired Electra. Impressive, too, was the Orestes of Thanos Cotsopoulos, the Clytemnestra of A. Raftopoulou. But what is usually the stumbling block of modern productions of Greek drama-the management of the chorus-was this time the special glory. There were "a few too-mannered touches; but its grave movement, its now murmurous, now resonant chanting, its sudden, swift, intensely dramatic confrontation of the audience, gave it a kind of orchestral grandeur and swell...
Born. To Judy Garland, 30, song & dance star of Hollywood and Broadway, and Sid Luft, 36, Hollywood agent: their first child, a girl; by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorna. Weight...