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...Late coming to dance, Kelly was late coming to Broadway: 25 when he came to New York. He made his Broadway debut in the chorus of "Leave Her to Me," then played Harry the Hoofer in William Saroyan?s "The Time of Your Life" - "the first time," Kelly recalled in 1976, "I realized you could make a characterization out of dancing." While creating dances for "Billy Rose?s Diamond Horseshoe," he met a chorine named Betsy Blair; they married in 1940 (divorcing in 1977). He reached Broadway stardom as the title heel in "Pal Joey" and, at the same time...
...didn't know I had been hired and fired by Theatre Arts until I read about it in TIME. What else has been happening to me lately that I ought to know about? WILLIAM SAROYAN New York City...
TIME regrets that it is fresh out of Saroyan news. All that the present editor [Charles MacArthur] of Theatre Arts knows about this crisis in American letters is that it occurred while he was in Europe and that he remains as ever Mr. Saroyan's most faithful...
...Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...
...Saroyan said he thought any prediction was extremely difficult because "you're dealing with very unstable and fragile states...