Broadway

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it.Wants steadyemployment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

—Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis

Come on along and listen to The Lullaby of Broadway The hip hoorayand bally hoo The Lullaby of Broadway.

—Dubin, Al

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

—Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz

I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of thenight before, so they will be ingood shape for more sinning a little later on.

—Runyon, (Alfred) Damon

Wasthere ever sucha sunnystreet asthis Broadway! The pavement stones are polished with thetread of feet until they shine again† Heaven save the ladies, how they dress! We have seen more colours in these ten minutes, than we should have seen elsewhere, in as many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! what pinking of thin stockings and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings!

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split secondöcomics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,Coke bottlesöall the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.

—Warhol, Andy