Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negatives, locked them up and suspended all photographing. But he was not in time to silence the howls. Newspapers picked up the story, splashed it into headlines (NUDE POSING OF COEDS RISES STORM . . .). To a good many readers, the whole affair sounded like some sort of campus peep show...
This week, with a new season about to begin, there were only 13 shows in Broadway's 30 playhouses, and all but one (Mike Todd's bosomy, bumptious Peep Show) were holdover hits from past seasons. During the summer, television networks had gobbled up three more legitimate theaters (making 16 to date). Production costs were skyrocket-high. Producers bemoaned the lack of new playwrights, and looked in vain for the open-handed angels of only a few years...
Russian moviegoers, whose last look at a new U.S. film was The Men in Her Life, in 1945, may soon get another peep behind Hollywood's celluloid curtain. After nearly two years of negotiation, the Ministry of Trade in Moscow last week cleared the way for delivery of a million-dollar, 20-picture package. Among the films the Russians were dickering for: Madame Curie, The Yearling, The Wizard of Oz, Captain Kidd, Tarzan's New York Adventure...
...Mike wanted to tell me about his revue but I would not let him, it being [my] firm policy to know as little as possible before the opening performance. So Todd and I chatted about stage humor and he told of his own high principles ... So I went to Peep Show . . . There came a sketch-a strip-tease number ... It was in the lowest possible taste. [There was also] an old burlesque number involving a girl who could twirl her breasts ... I felt sorry for the lovely young ladies of the company...
...still don't know who is the sucker-Todd or his public ... All I can report is that Peep Show made me feel cheap-and if this piece is another good box-office notice I shall feel cheaper still...