Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in December, an invitation committee first asked Kazan to appear. Broadway and Hollywood commitments prevented him from setting a definite date, however, and Kazan expressed regret that his commitments prevented an appearance at that time...
...After Broadway's Billy Rose attended a party at the house of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, Hollywood gossipists (with some subtle encouragement from the little showman himself) launched a new romance. Joan promptly sank it. Said she: "I threw a cocktail party and Billy Rose was there. That's all. I've never been out with him. Funny thing, he still thinks I gave the party...
...Cover) Manhattan's Adelphi Theater, off Broadway, was filled with a waiting audience. "Thirty seconds!" a tense voice called. The theater hushed...
...them all. He brought into the Church such unlikely prospects as Colonel Horace Mann of Tennessee, credited with leading a mudslinging campaign against Catholic Al Smith; Heywood Broun, archliberal freethinker; Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker. Other notable converts: Author Clare Boothe Luce, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Broadway Stage Designer Jo Mielziner, Motor Scion Henry Ford II. Recently, he has been giving instruction to the wife of a diplomat and to Screen Star Virginia Mayo. He has converted thousands of unknown people, including a hard-boiled bank robber. Says he: "I do not keep count...
...being certain whether the general will be in the U.S., or will even want to appear on the show. The only decision they have made is that their program will not be like the TV rally put on at Madison Square Garden last February by Hollywood and Broadway enthusiasts...