Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When TV first became mass entertainment three years ago, nobody had a very clear idea what to do with it. "We started out on TV peeking through a keyhole at a Broadway revue," says Max Liebman, producer of Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). When Liebman put on his first TV revue in 1949, dancers practiced in a bare room off Broadway; skits were worked out in cubbyhole offices and washrooms. Liebman's show went on the air without a camera rehearsal and from the stage of a theater. Curtains opened & closed for each number...
Died. James Gow, 45, onetime newspaperman who collaborated with Scenarist Arnaud d'Usseau on two hit melodramas for Broadway (Tomorrow the World, Deep Are the Roots) and the movie thriller Fourteen Hours; of hypertension; in Manhattan...
...Although the reviews were mixed, it was strictly thumbs up with London audiences when this poodle-haired actress opened there in her Broadway success...
Levin pointed out that the lecture is not necessarily an annual affair, and that plans for a second talk this spring had already been made before the cancellation of Kazan's talk. He said he regretted that the prize-winning director of Hollywood's "Streetcar Named Desire" and Broadway's "Death of a Salesman" was too busy with his professional work to come to Cambridge...
...give this one eight days on Broadway if it gets that far. A melange of all the worst war movies you have ever seen, The Long Watch has but one raison d'etre: the heartfelt theory of the authors that long-range rescue planes in time of war are a good thing. The reminder of the play is tied around the complex conjugal relations of half a dozen or so WAVES, who manage to turn their air-sea rescue base into a complete shambles in less than three hours on stage...