Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera soprano Polyna Stoska will sing the leading role. Miss Stoska was the star of Kurt Well's Broadway musical, "Street Scene." Tener Raymond Smolover of the Tanglewood Opera Company will take the male lead. The society's William P. Perry '51 will direct the orchestra and chorus...
Lindsay & Grouse's libretto is quite primitive as satire, and rather shameless (three of those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and Jerome Robbins' light and stylish dances provide an airy contrast to Miss Merman's earthy charm...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...
...About Eve. An expert, high comedy examination of Anne Baxter's climb, over the bodies of Bette Davis, George Sanders and others, from obscurity to Broadway stardom (TIME...
...movie shows the swift rise of young Broadway Actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) from a stagestruck unknown to an adulated star. She is seen first at her most triumphant moment, as the theater's elite prepare to honor her with their highest prize for acting. Then, in flashbacks introduced with narration by three different characters, the story of Eve's success proves her less a Cinderella than a Lady Macbeth...