Word: shubert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leggy Literatease Gypsy Rose Lee in Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...
...rest of the pieces were relatively unfamiliar: minnesong, Shubert songs, and works for the guitar. In explaining his program Dyer-Bennett defined himself as "not a balladeer but a minstrel: a musical entertainer who sings the accompaniment of a stringed instrument." One standard of a ministrel's success is whether he leaves his audience wanting one more song; that is what Dyer-Bennett...
...legitimate theater business dwindled before the movies' onslaughts, the Messrs. Shubert tightened their hold on what remained. About 14 months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division set FBI agents poking through the Shuberts' files, buttonholing show people in the rabbit warrens of Broadway casting offices. Last week Attorney General J. Howard McGrath rang up the curtain on a little drama of his own. In Manhattan's federal district court he slapped on a civil suit charging the Messrs. Shubert with monopolizing the U.S. theater in violation of the antitrust law. For good measure...
...trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged, they have to arrange their tours through the United Booking Office or run the risk that...
Life With Father. One Broadway showman who had given the FBI a tearful earful was Producer Oscar Serlin. He has been feuding with Jake & Lee ever since he offended them in 1939 by opening his smash hit Life With Father in the non-Shubert Empire Theater. When he took Life With