Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin prize. She was signed to appear at the Paramount Theater at $3,000 a week...
Next night, when the same little old man entered the royal box in London's Drury Lane Theater, he was dressed in evening clothes. The audience rose to its feet and thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...
Five new shows opened on Broadway last week, but this was the opening night most filled with expectant excitement. About to be unveiled at the Majestic Theater was the latest show by Rodgers & Hammerstein, the most smashingly successful writing-composing-producing team now in show business. Across the street, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma!, in its fifth year, was still playing to standees. Playing a few blocks away were three other big hits which the team produced (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary). As the first-night crowd, fully as conscious of its looks as an Agnes...
...unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking me what do I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and strawberry sundaes." Says his old friend, Librettist Otto Harbach: "He is a real gentleman of the theater." Says the wife of one of his collaborators: "He seems to have everlasting arms to lean on in trouble...
...courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they had offered me $20, I would have forgotten all about the stage. But they didn't. So I went to my Uncle Arthur and said: 'Forget that promise to Dad. I want...