Word: broadwayize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the few U. S. columnists who admire Franklin Roosevelt, none is more loyal than William Randolph Hearst's Walter Winchell, the nation's No. 1 expert on Broadway. In Washington to pick the Government's prettiest female employe, Columnist Winchell dropped in for a White House press conference, stayed 43 minutes, swapped stories with the President. Mr. Roosevelt's best story concerned his most embarrassing moment: when, as Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he set a trap for a lady friend whom he suspected of espionage. The trap was never sprung...
...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...
Composer Richard Rodgers, 35, and Lyric-Writer Lorenz Hart, 43, are the best-known words-&-music team on Broadway, with 24 shows behind them, including such hits as the two editions of the Garrick Gaieties, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, and the current I'd Rather Be Right. Their collaboration started when they wrote two Columbia Varsity shows (though Hart had already left Columbia), then drew their first salute from Broadway with the first Garrick Gaieties, in which Hart thumbed his nose at the June-moon school of lyrics, introduced such slick rhymes...
...total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both reach Chicago in record schedule time of 16 hours. Neither line will use radically new engines, will simply put new harness on Iron Horses. The cars, however, will be a departure...
Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations, flossy bars, photomurals of skyscrapers, pink lights to transform dining cars into "night clubs." Passengers will call the porter not with bells, but with chimes...