Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway, which has suffered through one inept comedy after another since Labor Day, was subjected to three in a row last week...
...bought expensive shoes. They bought gloves. They bought piles of lingerie. They bought stockings. They went to a beauty parlor and Roberta became a blonde and Marilyn a redhead. They hurried to the hotel, decked themselves in their finery, and went to the Latin Quarter, a big, gaudily-decorated Broadway nightclub...
They drank cocktails, ate dinner and then, still ravenous for excitement, departed-leaving only $1.13 for the waiter because he had been "so snooty"-and sallied forth into the night. Three youths whistled at them. A few minutes later, boys & girls were seated in a Broadway bar. After a drink, Roberta excitedly told the tale of the hidden $15,000. The boys jeered. Roberta pulled out the locker key and waved it. A little later she went to the ladies' room, leaving her bag on the table. The boys soon drifted away...
...open cars the ballplayers rode up Tokyo's Broadway, the Ginza. But after the motorcade, lit by magnesium flares, nudged its way through four blocks of jammed, yelling fans, who ignored restraining cops and pressed right up to the cars, Manager Frank ("Lefty") O'Doul asked the parade to be canceled: "I'd hate to see people hurt in this thing." Hanging out of windows, peering from rooftops, clinging precariously from lampposts, surging in the streets were 400,000 Japanese, almost twice as many as saw Douglas MacArthur off in April...
...persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...