Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fugitives from Broadway, Scripters Jim Carhartt and Nicky Winter, stopped off at London to sample the gay Festival life. Their report (in last week's Variety...
Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...
...Famed heretofore for its barns replete with hex signs and as a summer home for such Broadway wits & wights as George S. Kaufman, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Dorothy Parker, Moss Hart...
Died. Arthur Margetson, 54, British-born actor (Claudia, The Play's the Thing) who spent 34 years shuttling back & forth between London and Broadway productions, liked best the role of a humorous, stuffed-shirted Englishman, which he played in his last Manhattan appearance (1950's Clutterbuck); of cancer; in London...
...Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th Century-Fox) keeps the Clifton Webb series alive, but only at the cost of sabotaging its leading character and committing mayhem on the 1948 Broadway success, The Silver Whistle. This time, the acid, all-knowing Webb is uncomfortably fitted out with a heart of gold, while Robert McEnroe's comedy, on which the movie is based, loses most of its puckish spirit...