Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lillian Hellman, 46, the talented author of such Broadway and Hollywood hits as The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine, has quite a record of political activity outside the theater. Her sympathies for the world's downtrodden, by her own account, have led her twice to visit Russia. In 1945 she was the Soviet government's honored guest. Her sympathies have also led her to attend countless Red-inspired rallies and to lend her name to various Communist-front crusades. Playwright Hellman, who once described herself as "the greatest meeting-goer in the country," went last week...
...Stinks." Jules responded to Patri's treatment. At 14 he won an oratorical contest. Saving his fists for juveriile boxing tournaments, he began studying dramatics. Within a few years, he was playing minor roles in the Group Theater's Broadway hits written by Clifford Odets -Waiting for Lefty, Golden...
What is her special talent? TVmen credit Lucille with an unfailing instinct for timing. Producer-Writer Jess Oppenheimer says: "For every word you write in this business, you figure you're lucky to get back 70-80% from a performer. With Lucille, you get back 140%." Broadway's Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, hailing Lucille's control, calls her a "broad comedienne, but one who never goes over the line." To her manager, Don Sharpe, Lucille is "close to the Chaplin school of comedy-she's got warmth and sympathy, and people believe in her, even...
Gold Initials. Desi had come to Hollywood to make the movie version of the Broadway hit, Too Many Girls. Taking one look at luscious (5 ft. 7 in., 130 Ibs.) Lucille, who was wearing a sweater and skirt, he cried: "Thass a honk o' woman!" and asked: "How would you like to learn the rumba, baby?" He took her for a ride in his blue convertible, with the gold initials on the door, and she shudderingly recalls that the only time the speedometer dipped below 100 m.p.h. was when he rounded a curve. On the way home, Desi...
...trials and crimes (mostly murders); of a cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia; in London. A chapter in his Bad Companions, recounting a celebrated 1810 slander suit that followed a vindictive schoolgirl's false accusation against her two spinster teachers, was the inspiration for Playwright Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour. Fact-Writer Roughead was called by Novelist Dorothy Sayers "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...