Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor's disappointments and heartaches can be stated in cold statistics. In its current issue, the Broadway trade magazine Equity surveys the fortunes of 6,235 Actors' Equity members for the year ending June 1, 1951. Of these, 1,124 got no theater work at all. Those who found stage jobs averaged about ten weeks with pay, made $790 for the year. In an average week, 82.3% of the union's hopefuls were just hoping. Twenty-four stars made $50,000 or better, but only one actor in eight beat the $5,000 mark...
Actor Joe Dooley, 27, came to Broadway from Omaha by way of the U.S. Air Force. Last year he toured for three months with Margaret Webster's Shakespearean company, did four weeks in summer stock, picked up three bit parts in Manhattan's City Center productions. An understudy now in the Broadway production of Shaw's Saint Joan, Joe helps cover his Greenwich Village apartment rent by selling ties at Brooks Brothers...
Come of Age (by Clemence Dane and Richard Addinsell) flopped when it was first produced on Broadway in 1934, with Judith Anderson in the leading role. Over the years, it has been mourned in certain circles as a work whose haunting beauty went generally unrecognized. Revived last week at Manhattan's City Center-once again with Actress Anderson-it turned out to be a piece of pretentious nonsense...
...Milton Holmes has sparked the film with well-shot racing scenes, and given it some seemingly authentic paddock lore and lingo. Though somewhat young for his role, Actor Holden plays it with his usual skill, and Boots Malone also benefits from an earnest performance-his first in movies-by Broadway's 15-year-old Johnny (The King and I) Stewart...
After listening attentively to the songs from Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, the Australian Broadcasting Commission decided that some of the Cole Porter lyrics were not fit for Aussie ears, banned the playing of I Hate Men, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Brush Up Your Shakespeare...