Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired. It has had a long day, and deserves a rest. When it first appeared on Broadway 16 years ago, it was an exciting, hard-hitting, accurate drama of Manhattan speakeasy days. Producer Jed Harris, co-author Philip Dunning, co-author-director George Abbott rode it to a standstill: at one time eight road companies were playing to standing room only. Now it is a worn period piece. The story, about a small-time hoofer (George Raft) and his partner (Janet Blair) and their hope of getting out of nightclubs into the big time...
...never got on with the Brotherhoods. In 1929, McNear rode a cowcatcher through picket lines, thus broke a strike. In his 1932 annual report he harped: "It is time that eight hours' work be given for eight hours' pay." Late in 1940 he started anew, demanded that the Brotherhoods revise their rules before he considered a 30% wage boost...
...tally, neither side threatening seriously. In the first half of the ninth, the Yardlings had runners on first and second, but Tommy Ayres and Don Richards failed to supply the needed bingle. Then an Andover man went to first on Jim Gallagher's error, was sacrificed to second, and rode home on pitcher Andy Machaj's single to left...
Eugene Edward Buck, the man who rode high and handsome as president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) while it grew into a $7,000,000-a-year business, lost his job last week. ASCAP's directors elected in his stead Critic-Composer Deems Taylor...
...training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...