Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Best-Seller Betty Smith, little noted since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, worked on a play and a movie, had a new book about Brooklyn coming out next spring, meantime mused to an interviewer: "I'm getting too used to luxury. Writers shouldn't have too much comfort-all they need is warmth and enough to eat. . . . What I long for is the feeling of dreaming of a bright future again...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...
What makes people overeat? Insecurity and immaturity, as a rule, says Dr. Bruch: "Quite often it is the youngest or an only child who becomes obese. . . . Fathers usually play a subordinate role in the emotional life of the obese family. The mothers are dominant in their influence. . . ." Coddled, overfed and overprotected by a doting mother, the chubby child grows up with a "fundamentally low self-esteem and with the conviction of his helplessness in a world which has been represented to him as a dangerous place...
...Hammerstein was worried about Allegro. Said he: "It's the first play I have written. It's the first time I have put myself into a show." Next day, he should have been feeling pretty good. He had written something he had greatly wanted to write. He had heard a tough first-night audience salute it, time & again, with excited applause. He had been informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty...
...cueing actors, switching lights and, once, ringing up the curtain prematurely to reveal the property man sitting on a gilded throne with a chorus girl on his knee. He learned the magic mechanics of the theater ("I may write bad scenes, but I never write impractical ones"). His first play (The Light, a drama about a small-town girl) left New Haven completely unmoved. His first success was Tickle Me in 1920. After three years and four flops came his first hit, Wildflower, and his first smash hit, Rose Marie (both with Otto Harbach...