Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Broadway season has been nothing much to brag about. It has produced some very good entertainment, no good serious drama, much bad playwrighting. Last week the casualties were heavy. First, English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted into a three-act play. Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life...
Broadway's press agents (officially known as press representatives) number some 50 (a few of them women). About 15 really count. They are a special breed, with one foot in the theatre and the other in a newspaper office. They earn a minimum salary of $150 a week. (But it's a job in which a couple of lousy breaks might end a career.) They are suspicious characters to the public, which regards them as a kind of licensed liar who cooks up tall tales. Actually, their bread & butter depends on being strictly truthful. The newspapers are their...
...Last week Dick Maney was living a pressagent's dream: he was handling six shows at once* four more than any other press agent, and all that the Theatrical Managers, Agents & Treasurers Union allows. His factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...
...Little Foxes, Hamlet, Ladies and Gentlemen, Kindred, Christmas Eve (which closed at week's end), The Male Animal (opening on Broadway next week...
...Last week, because of this editorial, Colonel Knox and the Daily News were defendants in a $250,000 libel suit. Democratic Governor Horner accused Republican Colonel Knox of: 1) implying that Bioff's extradition had been postponed for improper reasons; 2) misrepresenting facts; 3) trying to "impair and destroy the influence and power of the Democratic Party...