Word: sardi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blue Network, which has no soap operas, has found an answer to its rivals' sudsy successes. It is a program called Breakfast at Sardi's (11-11:30 a.m., E.W.T., 8-8:30 a.m., P.W.T.), which has more listeners (estimate: 3,000,000) than most soap operas. It is predicated on the theory that nearly everybody lusts for notoriety...
Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
Habitués of Sardi's, Broadway's theatrical rendezvous, expect some day to attend an opening of a play like this with some such title as The Battle of the Market Place. For frequently to be seen at Sardi's, where he was long known solely as "Mr. Chocolate" from his penchant for hot chocolate, is a young theatre enthusiast who sees every play that comes to Broadway and has already written three himself (none produced). At present, Mr. Chocolate is too busy to keep up his writing; he happens to be the new president...
...Actors. Whatever the Theatre Guild does, it does well. Directors John Houseman and Herbert Biberman were up against a particularly difficult task in casting Valley Forge. They had to get actors who looked like Colonial revolutionists instead of a table full of diners at Sardi's theatrical restaurant. And they had to get actors who could speak Playwright Anderson's semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale...
...calls it....I thought all these English manors had acouts....battalions of varietry and that sort of thing ....well just one more before the fish eggs....very bad on an empty stomach ....oops, dearie, mind my bustle.... did you hear about Peter Arno and the bus boy from Sardi's?....well, it appears....it must be, I have it straight from Winchell....and he knows about that sort of thing....just one more before the fish eggs....Winter Place you aay?....I don't think they'll let us....you'll remember last time....the artichokes right through the transom...