Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan's big new Bop City (TIME, April 25), the fans were giving Mr. B. a reverent greeting in keeping with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River...
Eckstine, a modest, soft-spoken man offstage, lives quietly, when autograph hounds let him, with his wife June and his collie "Crooner," in uptown Manhattan. His one recreation is golf. He started playing last year, now often goes direct to the course from his last show at 4 a.m. He is already shooting around 85. One reason: he takes his own professional with him, even on trips...
...week to take to the country. By month's end, in such unlikely pastures as Fish Creek, Wis. and Woods Hole, Mass., more than 200 summer playhouses will sprout across the land. By Labor Day, they should yield a multimillion-dollar harvest-and more acting jobs than three Manhattan seasons...
...summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
Before the American Management Association in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week rose hardy old (73) Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and onetime boss of the U.S. Rubber Co.'s industrial relations. In a few crisp words, Cy Ching gave the 400 assembled U.S. executives plenty to think about. He said he would probably be called pro-labor for saying it, but in the labor disputes he has sat in on, "labor is always better prepared with facts & figures than management." Often the people who represent management "do not know what...