Word: broadwayize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past fortnight Broadway's box office slumped badly. As usual, managers blamed inclement and unseasonable weather. But they also thought up a new wrinkle: Manhattan is light on transients, out-of-towners saving their breath to cool their World's Fair porridge...
...cast taps, trucks, struts, shags in a way to make the white race gasp and give up. The swing finale to Act I-with the whole company whooping things up-provides the most animated ten minutes Broadway has seen since F.D.R. Jones in Sing Out the News. But after that, it is downhill...
With the help of Norma Shearer's much-publicized blonde wig, M.G.M. has produced an acceptable remake of Robert Shorwood's 1936 Broadway success, "Idiot's Delight." As a movie it has a high percentage of entertainment value, but it lacks the intellectual force of the stage production. The elements which made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess...
...Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under some 20 different names-Preston Dupre for the classics, Cyril Crossing for tangos, other Frenchy names for "saluts d'amour," etc. In 1916 he came to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, arranged and directed musicals for Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Ziegfelu, Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin. He arranged the swipes that made the Revelers quartet a popular and much plagiarized sensation in the late...
Promoter Albert Nathaniel Chapereau (Shapiro) kibitzed Paris, Broadway and Hollywood because: 1) he craved fine-feathered friends, and 2) the right people could help him promote his interests. He wanted Cafe Society recognition for himself and his wife, Paula. On Paula's wrist Radio and Cinema Comedian George Burns saw a nifty bracelet. Soon No. 1 Zany Gracie Allen (Mrs. Burns) had $4,885 worth of duty-free baubles like Paula's. Soon Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer's wife, Elma, had a duty-free Paris wardrobe just as pretty as Paula...