Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Few first-nighters recognized him, but the rumpled character caught in the crush at last week's opening of Walter and Jean Kerr's musicomedy Goldilocks (see THEATER) had one of the most important parts in the show: he was the moneyman. Roger Lacey Stevens, 48, a balding...
The Goldilocks notices were lukewarm, but Moneyman Stevens was not bothered, for he is a hardened hand at flops. In eight years, out of $4,000,000 worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A...
Full Employment. "Most shows," Stevens insists, "are lousy investments unless you have a good tax base and don't mind losing money." A good tax base is exactly what Stevens has-real estate operations ranging all the way from buying the Empire State Building in 1951 (he resold it...
That is saying a lot. In the two decades since Max Gordon staged Dodsworth for $59,000 and saw the show move into the black as soon as it began to gross $13,200 a week on the road, production costs have doubled. A Touch of the Poet must take...
A seasoned crew headed by Helmsman Briggs Cunningham handled the victor with professional skill, but the races were apparently decided months before in a special testing tank at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. There, Olin Stephens tested various scale-model hull designs under all kinds of simulated speeds...