Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Re your story in SHOW BUSINESS about Roger Stevens [Oct. 20]: Broadway's actors, playwrights, designers and directors consider this man one of the most vital and progressive forces in the present-day American theater. He will be sorely missed if he ever departs our scene.
Democrat, Too. The fast-stepping financing required by such production costs is second nature to Stevens, who quit the University of Michigan as a sophomore when his family was short of cash, seven years later boasted a $50,000 bank account and a $25,000-a-year income from Detroit...
Running his real estate business in the mornings, his theater productions in the afternoons and evenings (he reads about 200 scripts a year), Stevens still finds time to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee. He is an ardent Adlai Stevenson backer and gives him a good chance to win...
Fact is that even on Broadway, Stevens finds little time for social elbow-bending. "If I only knew more of these actors," says he wistfully. "If I had time to get to all their cocktail parties, I'd be a helluva lot better off. I find theater people a...
Little Women (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Question: Which side will win in the contest between Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler's tunes and Louisa May Alcott's sentimentalities, in this musical adaptation of the 1868 novel. The cast is not so much well-rounded as well-scattered...