Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Private Lanza waddled into the Special Services offices at the summons of Corporal Johnny Silver, he had been brooding for months over his broken singing career. "His shirt was open, he didn't have a hat, no laces on his shoes," recalls Silver, now a featured player in Broadway's Guys and Dolls. "He hadn't taken a bath in six months. He hadn't even taken his socks off in six months, and the guy weighed 287 Ibs. He just didn't give a damn...
Dolores Gray, back on Broadway after wowing London for three years in Annie Get Your Gun, is a good showman too, and a very fetching singer. With a voice as hearable as it is husky, she rolls out Give a Little, Get a Little Love, rat-tat-tats the lyrics of a crisp patter song, If You Hadn...
...building, going up just off Broadway in Manhattan, station WOR-TV this week sealed a lead-covered, radiation-proof copper box containing predictions by New York TV critics on the future .of television. The predictions, to be opened 100 years from this week, generally foresaw a rosy future for the medium. But the World-Telegram and Sun Critic Harriet Van Home took bitter exception...
General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). A panel from Broadway, identifying acts performed by Ethel Waters, Roland Young and others...
Strictly Dishonorable (MGM) shows how persistent Hollywood can be. The picture is the second movie version of Preston Sturges' 1929 Broadway hit; it is also MGM's second attempt to capture Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza's middle-aged sex appeal on film...