Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gesticulating armies of children who will jam Central Park West and Broadway this week to see Macy's famed Thanksgiving Day parade were prepared for what could only be described as a Sensational Experience. Bands, clowns, floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...
This full, rich life ended with a bang in 1931. It was a time when many a silent star suddenly became a has-been. Boyd has another reason for his decline: another actor named William Boyd (who had played Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...Peter Pan, originally produced in London in 1904 with the late Nina Boucicault as the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, ran for 145 performances. The play has been revived in London every Christmas season since, except in the blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting a new Peter Pan record...
...Broadway theater, a fabulous invalid that lingers on & on, was about to get another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...
Supported by $54,000 from the League of New York Theaters, the campaign will run through 1951, Broadway's bicentennial year.* Among the "educational" efforts planned: a documentary film, a television show, a national essay contest, a traveling exhibition of theatrical Americana. Slogan of the campaign: "The play's the thing...