Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Harald Bromley & George Brandt in association with Richard Doscher) has been darn near a lifetime for Edward Everett Horton. Having played it just about everywhere else in the U.S. for the past 18 years, he began playing it last week on Broadway. To Broadway, which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into sowing...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
...types of theatre activity" in this country. Congress gave ANTA everything but an appropriation. The officers of ANTA, including Helen Hayes, Cheryl Crawford, and Vinton Freedley '14, have managed by means of private fund-raising, to make the group more than a name. A series of fine revivals on Broadway this year, including "Twentieth Century," has given ANTA needed publicity. Jouvet's tour, which has reached four American and Canadian cities, broadens ANTA's scope and prestige even more...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...
Critic Malraux is not always clear about what he means by "the absolute," but generally it comes down to a matter of religion; he believes Christianity is in a twilight stage. For him, a "little pseudo-Gothic church on Broadway, tucked away amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age. On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb...