Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producers Theatre, Inc. is a far cry from the usual one-shot partnership of Broadway show backers. It is a longterm, well-knit marriage of business acumen and theatrical talent. Its sparkplug is dynamic Real-Estate Tycoon Roger L. Stevens, who engineered the 1951 purchase of the Empire State Building...
A producer in his own right (Twelfth Night), Stevens teamed up last fall with topnotch Broadway Producer Robert (The Time of the Cuckoo) Whitehead and fellow Tycoon Robert Dowling (City Investing Co.) to form a glittering $1,000,000 triumvirate. Its aims: "To produce plays and operate playhouses" on a...
Despite a late start last season, the triumvirate sponsored two plays: T.S. Eliot's Confidential Clerk, Liam O'Brien's The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The...
With Stevens a member of the Playwrights Co. and Dowling also a power in ANTA (American National Theatre & Academy), all three members of Producers Theatre, Inc. stay close to Broadway. In its beehive offices on Times Square, a score of picked young actors meet thrice weekly to read and recite...
ARMY LEADERS CALL ON PRESIDENT: Robert T. Stevens, center, Secretary of Army, and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Army Chief of Staff, enjoy a laugh with President after a conference at the Summer White House. Topics were atomic warfare and national survival. --Photo caption in the New York Times, Sept. 29