Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While waiting for the annual verdict of the Pulitzer Prize jury and the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Broadway handed out its own laurels, the American Theater Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards, for the season's best work up to March 1. Best musical: Guys and Dolls. Best play: Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Other "Tonys" went to: Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman and Newcomer Russell Nype (for Call Me Madam); Uta Hagen (The Country Girl); Claude Rains (Darkness at Noon...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who eventually wises up, Judy Holliday steals the show in this movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
...comparatively compact City Center Theater, Stage Director José Ruben, veteran of both opera and Broadway (and once Sarah Bernhardt's leading man), made Manon move through all its five acts with proper sentiment and subtlety. In the pit, French Conductor Jean Morel kept the pace clean and precise. And the singing, French diction included, of City Opera's young Americans could hardly have been better...
...Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning up until another mobster (Lloyd Nolan) hijacks both...
...Hours is a tense melodrama at the Astor, Times Square, about a man on the edge of a tall building wondering when to jump. The Capitol, Broadway and 51st presents a new Rudyard Kipling all-star epic, Soldiers Three, with Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, and Robert Newton. Teresa gets its world premiere Thursday at the 52nd Street and Madison. Tans-Lux replacing, the British thriller, Seven Days to Noon...