Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playwright-Actor Emlyn (Night Must Fall) Williams, a rabid Dickensian, got the idea, not just of repeating the Dickens readings, but of impersonating the author-clothes, whiskers and all. A hit in London, Williams-like Dickens-began a U.S. tour in Boston, last week reached Manhattan. His success on Broadway was more than a stunt: it neatly blended novelty with nostalgia, proved Dickens to be a "dramatic" novelist, Williams to be a colorful Dickens in a studiously varied program...
Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...Manhattan's 26 Broadway, citadel of the old Standard Oil Trust until its dissolution in 1911, the directors of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. last week trooped into their paneled meeting room, eased into leather chairs beneath John D. Rockefeller's portrait and listened to a report of Socony-Vacuum's 1951 profits that would have amazed old John...
Jennings shares command with Chairman Holton, a onetime $5-a-month law clerk who became general counsel of Vacuum Oil Co., another result of the trustbusting, and moved into 26 Broadway in 1931, when Socony and Vacuum merged. Jennings' hobby is woodworking. When he discovered that Chairman Holton's gavel was missing, he took an old table leg and turned him a new one on his lathe. The gavel is used sparingly, for both men rule Socony largely by committee (the board and the four-man executive committee) ; it is too large to do otherwise...
Over 250,000 pictures from play scenes constitute one of the most important parts of the collection. These photographs are kept up to date, and include scenes from all of the latest Broadway productions, as well as plays of past years...