There was a charming air of mystery about the opening of “Broadway” last week at the Royale Theater: no one seemed to know just where it had come from. An ad had appeared in the Times one morning, and when you rang the producer’s office to ask why there hadn’t been any advance notice about the show they explained that no one had been sure there would be money enough to put it on. “How sweet! How wonderfully M-G-M!” you thought. And you didn’t remember until later that there’d been a reference in Variety to something called “Classic Broadway,” produced Continue reading

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