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Before he died in 1965, Blackstone apparently gave most of his secrets, and much of his orotund manner, to Harry Jr., who brings all of the old tricks, and a few new ones, to Broadway. The new, modernized Blackstone slices a woman in half with a 36-inch rotary saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pure Magic | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

A comfortable wooden frame house on a quiet, tree-lined street about a half-mile south of the Harvard football stadium is the setting for the Maitreya World Foundation. Inside are purple soft carpets, pillows for meditation, incense, and pictures and statutes of Buddhas and Jesuses and elephant-faced Indian...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

CBS also wants a room in TV's animal house, and executives there have been watching Ethel Is an Elephant. She is indeed, and she shares a loft with a young Manhattan photographer, who has to fight both the city and his landlord to keep her there. Once he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Arts Gratia Arfis | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Inevitably, some New Yorkers' solutions to the problem of getting about were spectacularly original. One Brooklyn man telephoned Gloria McGill, owner of Chateau Stables, to request an elephant fitted with a platform and chair to take him from his home to his job on Staten Island. McGill said she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Get a Horse--or an Elephant | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Theater people still look to Broadway for money and approval, but producers themselves look to off-Broadway. Production costs have risen to such heights that backers no longer put money into a new play and send it on the road for seasoning. Instead, they will take an off-Broad way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Long Road to Broadway | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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