Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
Pros & Prizes. The recent spectacular surge gets its impetus from the cold economics of postwar commercial publishing. Soaring costs have fostered the hit psychology of the Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities...
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...seasons ago, an unknown author named William Gibson, an unknown actress named Anne Bancroft, a television producer named Fred Coe and a director named Arthur Penn reached Broadway with a two-character play, Two for the Seesaw. It was such a solid hit that it is still running today. This team's second effort, The Miracle Worker, came to the Wilbur Theatre in Boston Tuesday night. It is a gripping, magnificently performed piece of stagecraft, and it should have no difficulty in duplicating and surpassing the success of Seesaw...
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