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Word: broadway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, prance through a script which seems a flimsy, somewhat gruesome takeoff on Guys and Dolls, since it concerns the attempts of a playboy to win the hand of a prissy Salvation Army-type girl. Regrettably, The Belle of New York lacks both the Broadway characters and the amusing lyrics of Guys and Dolls, and there is nothing substituted for them...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Belle of New York | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...acceptance culminates the committee's three-month campaign to find a nationally-known performer, which has seen it futilely contact dozens of Hollywood and Broadway entertainers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Songstress to Be Star at Monday's Yardling Smoker | 3/8/1952 | See Source »

That estimate of Duke's earnings is probably conservative. Outside of his film interests, his holdings now include sizable chunks of California real estate, several oil wells, a share of Cartoonist Al Capp's comic-book publishing company, a piece of a Broadway hit show. With unfulfilled contracts still calling for pictures at Warners, RKO and Republic, and an unwritten agreement with Ford to make any picture Ford wants, Wayne last week was busy negotiating the last details of his own producing company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Roger Dann, French night club singer and star of the former Broadway play, "A Happy Time," is coming from New York to star at the French Club Masquerade Ball scheduled for tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Singer Here Tonight | 3/1/1952 | See Source »

...Still a delightfully fresh musical eleven years after it first opened on Broadway is the revival which stars Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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