Word: broadwayize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Timely Records, Inc., 1600 Broadway, Manhattan...
...first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal fool...
...Fort Worth Record and the highly efficient business manager of the Fort Worth symphony orchestra, quit her jobs after Ginger's Charleston victory, helped manage the tour which was first prize. Four years later, after the customary interludes of night-club engagements and vaudeville acts, Ginger Rogers reached Broadway as ingenue star of Girl Crazy. During the 45-week run of Girl Crazy (at $1,000 a week), Ginger Rogers made five pictures at Paramount's Astoria Studio. When Girl Crazy closed she went to Hollywood, where she has remained ever since...
There are those who would as soon miss their own weddings as a Katharine Cornell play. Her yearning, mobile face is the contemporary theatre's testament of beauty, and only Helen Hayes can challenge her as Broadway's First Lady. Having achieved her own producing company, having played Juliet-ultimate role of all English-speaking actresses-Actress Cornell offers this week, at 41, what is usually the swan song of distinguished old age: an autobiography...
...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...