Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloodhounds of Broadway (20th Century-Fox) is a good-humored cinemusical about a few of Damon Runyon's guys and dolls: Lookout Louie, Curtaintime Charlie, Pittsburgh Philo, Ropes McGonigle and other such gruff but likable Times Square characters...
...House Un-American Activities Committee, continuing its search of Who's Who in the Communist world, quizzed Hollywood-Broadway Writer Abe (Guys and Dolls) Burrows, 41, who freely admitted that he had furnished lyrics and piano accompaniment for many a Red gathering in filmland, but had never paid dues nor signed the card. Said he: "If [someone] said I was a Communist Party member he was probably telling the truth as he saw it. I was seen with them. I was around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold...
That background may in part account for one of the eeriest styles yet offered to a U.S. audience, and for the fascination Singer Clary exerts over audiences at Broadway's New Faces of 1952, in which he sings a few songs, and at an after-theater nightclub where he does two shows a night...
...Broadway has its Lunts; London its Oliviers. Last week Manhattan theatergoers had a chance to see the pride of Paris. Imported by Impresario Sol Hurok, Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault began a three-week run which will end with Hamlet, the play that brought their troupe fame...
...that Actor-Director-Choreographer Barrault knows how to use his body quite as well as his head. A pantomime that just falls short of being a ballet, Baptiste has a gay, floating, slightly intermittent charm, with more unusual comic effects than choreographic ones. For real substance from the troupe, Broadway had still to wait: their first bill was rather a triumphant avoidance of it, an exercise in sheer airiness and grace...