Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enthusiastically applauded by a dressy first -night audience, the ballet was drubbed by the critics. "No amount of balletic license," said the Financial Times, "can really excuse this parade of cliche and low comedy." But Playwright-Composer-Actor Coward had an answer: "If I wrote for the critics, I would not be so happy-or so successful...
...squad of top executives swung through Europe, the Far East, Polynesia, dipping their manicured fingers into the pots of the world's better restaurants. Bagel-waisted Vice President Joseph Baum, 38, gave his all to the cause; he gained 15 lbs. in the five hectic weeks before opening night...
...aged son of a British banker and ran through his fortune in about a dozen years. "Belle." he said gently one day, "we have no more money." Gently, she left him. Before the year was out she was consorting with streetwalkers in London's slums and sleeping at night on the Thames Embankment...
...mansion on East 52nd Street-it was not a saloon, she insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone $1,000 for a round of soft drinks. But in 1931 the Feds closed down her "Country Club" on 58th Street, caught buxom Belle as she tried to skedaddle across the roofscape in red pajamas, and saw her sentenced to 30 days in a Harlem...
Middle of the Night. Fredric March as an aging widower who becomes involved with his 24-year-old receptionist (Kim Novak), in Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky's most, sustained and mature work to date...