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...Ethel Barrymore, and paraded through a blacked-out Broadway. Their demand: the right to bargain collectively with their producers. The producers capitulated after 30 days, during which New Yorkers consoled themselves with flicks, pickup vaudeville and impromptu sidewalk skirmishes. Last week, once again, Broadway theaters were deserted, and Shubert Alley was so dark that one could not tell a producer from a philanthropist. At the end of an artistically and financially dreary season, New York's commercial theater was shut down in an eruption of Broadway's economic anarchy...
Landlords usually get between 25% and 30% of the weekly gross. This is an enormous slice, and many producers and actors insist that the theater owners are the real villains of the situation. When Landlord John Shubert complained that the Equity tactics represented a threat to culture, one New York columnist remarked: "That amounts to Attila the Hun denouncing a threat to Christian civilization...
...took command. City Investing had assets of $11,000,000 and a net worth of $8,000,000. Today, the assets have multiplied fivefold, and the profits are better than $1,000,000 a year. City Investing owns five of Broadway's top theaters, and unlike their dilapidated Shubert neighbors, they are showplaces in themselves. Dowling does not lease his theaters; he operates them. "We knew the product." he says, "and we wanted to see it the best in the city-in decor, air conditioning, treatment of customers-so we had to become operators." A devoted theatergoer himself, Dowling...
Music from Shubert Alley (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Six decades of Broadway, recalled in the songs that sparkled in Shubert Alley musicals. Andy Williams is host. Guest stars include Alfred Drake, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Doretta Morrow, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston...
...unrelieved dirty shame. Its proprietors have made mistakes, perhaps, in many directions, but they put together a good group of actors, and the series of plays they presented during their brief tenure at the Wilbur were, at very least considerably more interesting than those that occupied the crowded Shubert across the street. The Repertory promised--and provided--what theatrical experts had been demanding for years: an opportunity for rich and poor and cheap and lavish and ignorant and learned alike to go to the theatre, often and conveniently, to see good plays well acted, almost, perhaps, the way they drop...