Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Twelves Are 48 (by Joseph Kesselring; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) was the first play of Kesselring's to reach Broadway since Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941. It was also very nearly the worst play to reach Broadway since that time. It dealt with a family whose females, one after another, became unmarried mothers at twelve. Almost certainly anyone with the ability to handle such a subject would lack the desire. Playwright Kesselring handled it so crudely that, before the show closed after two performances, he had audiences wincing and yawning...
Theater of Romance, however, will only occasionally reflect the deep-thinking side of Faith Baldwin. For the next show she has promised something more in line with commercial reality: the story of a glamorous, beautiful Broadway actress (Nina Foch) who is ardently wooed and eventually won by a wealthy young man from Park Avenue...
Died. Dwight Deere Wiman, 55, Illinois-born Broadway producer (The Little Show, The Country Girl), an heir to the John Deere plow fortune; after a brief illness; in Hudson...
...Neal. Actor Wayne's flinty authority as a man of action crumbles under the trite situations and dialogue ashore. For comic relief, the picture rings in the disheveled aftermath of the enlisted men's shore leave, a scene that plays much better where it played earlier, in Broadway's Mister Roberts...
...with the Army (Paramount) was not much of a play on Broadway in 1949, but Scripter-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe's film version shows that it could have been much worse. The training-camp farce now serves as a vehicle for Comics Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis and their ragbag of nightclub bits & pieces...