Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. George Abbott, 65, Broadway producer, playwright (The Boys from Syracuse) and director (Call Me Madam); by TV Actress Mary (Studio One, Suspense) Sinclair, 28; after five years of marriage; in Reno...
...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...
Thus in Nashville, the Broadway of "country" music, another hillbilly tune was sent on its way last week. The singer, Tennessee-bred Carl Smith, 24, Columbia's latest country star, was cutting a few sides to follow up the three (Let's Live a Little, Mr. Moon, If Teardrops Were...
...Billy Budd" is built around an abstract moral theme and as such it differs greatly from the average Broadway plot-dominated production. The average American audience considers "Billy Budd" hard work. Hence its mixed reception on Broadway. The backers are counting on the intelligentsia, among whom the Brattle playgoers like to consider themselves, for the appreciation and financial support the production needs. After Tuesday's opening, both of these necessities seemed assured...
Died. Kelcey Allen, 75, drama critic for Women's Wear Daily since 1915; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The dean of Broadway's critics, Allen wrote determinedly unliterary reviews which had a great influence on the boxoffice; his paper served the mammoth garment industry, making him top authority on what show a visiting buyer could enjoy on a spare evening...