Word: mame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...
...good. Not only was My Fair Lady still going strong and bringing at least $60 a pair for tickets v. $26 a pair for The Most Happy Fella and $20 for Damn Yankees, but a whole series of surefire new hits were on the way. Opening next week, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, has a million-dollar advance sale, is virtually sold out through March. Bells Are Ringing, with Judy Holliday, has rave out-of-town notices and a $750,000 advance. And the new Ethel Merman musical, Happy Hunting, which will probably have a record $1.5 million advance before...
...little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis, wrote the runaway bestseller, Auntie Mame...
Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
Puffing a cigar instead of his customary burnished brown pipe, Dave McDonald marched into the elevator, rode 20 floors to his three-room, $65-a-day suite. He changed into tailored lounging clothes, considered which of two books−Auntie Mame or a condensed edition of Toynbee−to pick up for relaxation. Another bargaining session between the steelworkers' union and the country's three largest steel companies had ended a few minutes before. McDonald, who had been leading the union delegates at the sessions in the Hotel Roosevelt, was anxious to be away from the stress...