Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slender 36, began studying painting at a community center in West End Boston. Since then he has kept at his art steadily, selling no paintings at first, indifferent to poverty. In 1942, he was jarred from an oilstove and breadcrumb existence by painting Curator Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. She hung 13 of his paintings in a show of American artists, and the museum bought two of them for its permanent collection...
...Admiral show is new to television audiences, but Broadway oldtimers have seen it growing in bits & pieces for years- in Greenwich Village nightclubs, fashionable saloons on Manhattan's East Side, and the Pocono Mountains sector of the straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...
...Manhattan music lovers were listening last week to another English girl who sings straight...