Word: broker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children...
Most of the cast is as good as the other aspects of the production. Rosalind Froug, the stock broker, has an overwhelming stage presence and a pleasant singing voice. As the poet, Frederic Morehouse is at least adequate, though at times he is a little too jocular for an exalted writer, while Lee Jeffries and James Spiegler make an appealing romantic couple. And another couple, played by Betsy Nelson and Fred Mueller, is funny enough to stop the show. In addition, the direction of Hugh Fortmiller helps to make Tea and Empathy into a show at least as good...
Marriage Revealed. Terry Moore (real name: Helen Luella Koford), 27, cinemactress (King of the Khyber Rifles); and Eugene C. McGrath, 33, Panama insurance broker; both for the second time (her first: Footballer Glenn Davis); on New Year's Day, in Las Vegas...
...President Eisenhower is the pulse of the stock market," said a Wall Street broker. "Everything is Ike, Ike, Ike." For weeks the market pulse has beaten sluggishly; trading dropped and prices edged down as a majority of Wall Streeters decided that Ike would not run again. Last week the pulse speeded up after the doctors issued their report on Ike's condition. The next day so many buy orders poured in that some specialists had trouble opening their stocks. Not until 10:18 a.m., for example, did U.S. Steel open on a huge block of 25,000 shares...
...witty friends. But now those friends are ruined, bitter, broke or drunk. But Widmerpool, the earnest bore, alone seems to be making a go of it in a suddenly makeshift world. He works in a financial house that specializes in discounting bills. Widmerpool's job as a bill-broker becomes a symbol of Author Powell's thesis...