Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl in the Truman Capote...
Divorced. Glenn Ford, 43, cinemactor (Blackboard Jungle-); by Eleanor Powell, 47, dancing screen star of the '30s (Broadway Melody of 1936, 1938, 1940); after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Salute to the American Theater (CBS, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.). Franchot Tone introduces scenes from Broadway shows- Waiting for Lefty, Inside U.S.A., South Pacific, Call Me Mister, Watch on the Rhine, There Shall Be No Night, West Side Story, Raisin in the Sun-to demonstrate "the American theater's continuing fight against bigotry." With Phyllis Newman, Eli Wallach, Tom Poston, William Shatner, Bill Tabbert...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Variety with Jimmy Durante in Give My Regards to Broadway. Guests: Eddie Hodges, Jane Powell, Jimmie Rodgers, Ray Bolger. Color...
...amusing details, but it chiefly conveys a sense of stretching already flimsy materials-of building small incidents about Negroes or Jews into unctuous minority rites. Clearly the basic trouble with Only in America is that it should never have been a play. But the thought persists that only on Broadway, with its headlong opportunism, could it ever have become...