Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway...
...scene reminiscent of prizefighting's happier days, of Dempsey and the Million-Dollar Gate, when the Sweet Science was still sweet and Fight Night had the glamour and excitement of a Broadway opening. At Manhattan's new $43 million Madison Square Garden, tuxedoed gents and long-gowned ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile...
...compensation for his honey voice, Scourby lacks conventional leading-man looks, so he carved his career in character roles in TV dramas and Hollywood as well as on Broadway. It was his preference for living in the East that finally steered him into commercial work, which alone brings his income to $250,000 a year. The riches embarrass him a little. "I don't think anybody deserves that much money," he says. For conscience and kicks, he limits his commercial tapings to about 90 days a year; the rest of the time he records for the blind...
...Alexander Euclid Scourby was bred in Brooklyn, but any vestige of his home borough or his immigrant parents' Greek accent was drilled out of him by the time he was 19, when he apprenticed with Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theater. Within four years, he was on Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing up to five soap-opera parts...
...cities. Then it's back to Madison Avenue to do an other spot for Eastern. "Frankly," he says, in the voice that no one dares disbelieve, "I have more respect for the commercials I'm doing than some of the stuff that's on Broadway...