Word: broadwayize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Chile. They were divorced last year and Clara Driscoll Sevier changed her name to Mrs. Clara Driscoll...
...confused with the Mexican Government's musical Mexicana, recently running on Broadway...
...there were 28 shows on Broadway. June 1 there were 16. Such a slump is normal enough at season's end, but this year Broadway thought that the New York World's Fair would keep her dolled up in her midwinter ermines. Instead, with New Yorkers scurrying to Flushing and out-of-towners in no rush to get to New York, the Fair has Broadway limping about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history...
...much a part of the Broadway scene as a ham actor out of work, the flashy International Casino, melting pot of buyers, cooks up a long, elaborate girls-&-gagsters vaudeville. With never a lozenge to cool his throat, Wisecracker Milton Berle (Earl Carroll Vanities) serves as tireless, tedious Master of Ceremonies for such acts as Georgie Tapps's neat dancing, Harry Richman's loud singing, and Caribbean Rapture, a writhing dance to voodoo drums that is the best and warmest of Manhattan's tropical chorus spectacles...
When his first Broadway play, My Heart's in the Highlands, closed last week. Modest-Violet William Saroyan wired th Broadway critics: "The custom of reviewing a play on opening night is a good one, I believe, but not quite complete enough. I sincerely suggest, therefore that, if possible, you review the closing night also...