Word: garter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes Helen Goes to Troy as a show is the thing that has kept it alive for nearly a century: the inimitable lilt of Offenbach's music, a vulgar Parisian sheen that sparkles like the rhinestones in a cocotte's garter...
...right to drink a dish of tea without a ring of Southwark's grime within the cup. He was translated to the country Diocese of Winchester. In influence the Bishop of Winchester is second in the province of Canterbury. He becomes, automatically, Prelate of the Order of the Garter. In his diocese is the big port of Southampton, whose waterside slums, though less imperial than Portsea's, were still imposing...
...story of "Mexican Hayride," the new musical currently at the Shubert, is the story of Chicago's theatre-born Mike Todd, who took a jaded Broadway by storm a little over a year and a half ago with the lavish and ribaid "Star and Garter." Wise in the devious ways of show biz, Mike, since then, has offered a war-weary public escapism with a capital...
...quite so anarchic as it looks. Most of the season's horrors, though often an unconscionable time a-dying, have died. Of 33 shows that have opened, 19 are under the sod. It is largely to plays of a certain age-last season's Star and Garter, The Doughgirls, Janie and a raft of others-that Broadway's rich playboys & girls still pay lucrative court...
...script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George S. Kaufman, who wanted it buried. As a final flip of the G-string, Todd took advance ads in Manhattan papers reading: "Guaranteed not to win the Pulitzer Prize...