Word: broadwayize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth...
...Gentlemen, after opening in Santa Barbara, last week started a month's tryout on the West Coast-two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Hayes said her husband felt that, if she must play in his piece, it had better begin as far from Broadway as possible...
...secretary, the architect made ready to send his son to Europe, "in search of my lost youth." But the play had a bad case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies and Gentlemen pleased San Francisco, may make good box-office on Broadway because of: 1) its stars, 2) its Hecht-MacArthur gags. Sample (by a frequently-pregnant woman): "My husband says I'm better than an honest slot machine...
...playwright and screen writer, Samson Raphaelson is as good as they come. His light comedies (The Jazz Singer, Young Love, Accent on Youth) not only packed them in, critics liked them too, praised their deftness, wit, freshness. But Broadway and Hollywood are not Parnassus. Skylark, a fluffy first novel originally written as a play (serialized in the Satevepost as Streamlined Heart), last week proved that Samson Raphaelson's stuff is better on boards than in them...
...grass grow, see? She's a skylark"), its improbable characters and adroit situations, may sound more convincing on the stage than in print. Manhattanites may have a chance to find out next autumn, when ebullient Gertrude Lawrence, who toured in the play last spring, opens it on Broadway...