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...mustachioed thane of the sceptered aisle, this Greek god, this other Edam, this papier-mãché genius, this blessed plotter, this doozer producer, this publicity addict who would send his cocker spaniel to Cape Canaveral if he thought it would get into space, this man, this David Merrick has done it again...
Borrowed Luster. To advertise his new musical, Subways Are for Sleeping, Merrick stacked up one above another the names of Manhattan's seven daily-newspaper critics, and in huge block letters proclaimed that 7 OUT OF 7 ARE ECSTATICALLY UNANIMOUS ABOUT "SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING." Beside each name was a quote. Walter Kerr, for example: "What a show! What a hit! What a solid hit! If you want to be overjoyed, spend an evening with Subways Are for Sleeping. A triumph." Howard Taubman: "One of the few great musical comedies of the last 30 years, one of the best...
...seems to have been a time of decision for Gleason. Late in 1958, he took on a role as a serious actor - in a television produc tion of Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he was enormously impressive. Then Producer David Merrick asked him to play the blissfully besotted Uncle Sid in Take Me Along-the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. His collision with Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever paid to a Broad way actor?" asked...
Other officers are Lawrence M. Butler '64, of Quincy House and Chelsea, Narthex; Michael J. Goodkin '63, of Eliot House and Merrick, N.Y., Treasurer; and Marshal Field III '63, Adams House and Chicago...
...smiled just then, but fellow actors generally like Bobby Morse too-when they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...