Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot ditch currently disrupting traffic at the intersection of Cambridge and Broadway Streets, opposite Memorial Hall, will be gone by tonight. Workmen today were filling in the excavation after repairing a leak in a five-inch pipe which returns condensed water from the Rindge Tech heating system...
...second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous but endearing old matriarch...
...drama played on Broadway two seasons...
...high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000), was finally hospitalized on a benefit fund...
...unsuccessful playwright on Broadway, he joined Warner Brothers as a scripter in 1936, piled up plenty of screen credits (They Won't Forget, Dust Be My Destiny, Edge of Darkness) but not much satisfaction. In 1946 he branched out as a writer-director (Johnny 0'Clock), then tried just directing (Body and Soul). Next, having set up Robert Rossen Productions through a financing-distributing deal with Columbia, he became a producer (The Undercover Man). His latest film is his first crack at writing, producing and directing all at once...