Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same token, most effective South American missionary in the U. S. last week was a brown-skinned bead-burdened bombshell named Carmen Miranda, who last week continued to pack them in on Broadway with her hot Portuguese singing, the international language of rolling hips and eyes...
...Publicized by Brother Rats John Monks Jr. and Fred Finklehoff in Broadway and cinema successes. Other Brother Rats: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, Cinema Hero Jack Holt...
...overalls, to his own guitar, barely subsisting on pickings from the late Federal Theatre, from earnest groups in Manhattan who found his songs good. Last week, Earl Robinson's song was on its way to a publisher, was slated for early recording, and in the wind was a Broadway stage production, with Ballad for Americans its theme. But to inquiring advertisers interested in sponsoring Pursuit of Happiness, CBS last week for the time being had two short words: "No sale...
...theatre that would be spectacular in a man of 100. Kaufman's current collaboration with Moss Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Oct. 30), is one of the biggest smash hits of the last ten years. Kaufman's unequaled record: at least one show on Broadway every year since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take It With You) had the fifth longest run (837 performances) in the history of Broadway; 14 others ran close to 200 performances...
Such a career argues more than a brilliant writer of comedy. It proclaims a past master of show business, who has learned every trick of the trade and invented many a new one. It proclaims an amazing foresight in always taking the pulse of Broadway as the clue to its heart, a habit of always writing fashionable plays and never revolutionary ones. It proclaims a playwright who has made sport of everything while never giving offense to anybody. It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment, and that good entertainment pays...