Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Drink & a Kiss. The first-nighters for The Lady's Not for Burning assembled in the customary coquettish melee of a Broadway opening, the day's trivia still buzzing in their ears, its annoyances, despite the anesthetic of dinnertime Martinis, still hot under their collars. The curtain rose. Actors began to speak. The hero introduced himself...
...language was unmistakably English, but characters do not talk that way on Broadway stages...
...real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel after Sothern...
...adored Roxane for another man. If it is not all that admirers of the play might wish, it is more than most of them might dare to expect. Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer keeps faith with the unabashedly romantic spirit of the original, and Actor Jose Ferrer, who gave Broadway its most recent (1946) production of the play, is the very embodiment of Rostand's self-sacrificing, self-dramatizing hero...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty deflation of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm (TIME...