Broadway Notes and Salons of Leonard Lyons
A collage of entertainment buzz from New York society and theater. Notes on Mrs. Stravinsky, Vincent Sardi Jr selling Sar di’s East to Herb Gruder, Stuart Ostrow’s 1776 route to Dirksen, and Charlton Hamilton possibly joining Nixon staff. Plus TV stars Steve Lawrence Eydie Gorme wedding reprise, Woody Allen Equity union, Bogota film extras, Cyril Ritchard Noel Coward anecdote, Callas BBC TV bid, and Canterbury Tales costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent Sardi, Jr
Sardi
Herb Gruder
Gruder
Jockey Club
Stuart Ostrow
Everett Dirksen
Chicago
Charles Hamilton
Nixon
Pat Moynihan
Bell System
Steve Lawrence
Eydie Gorme
Sam
Woody Allen
Actors Equity
Paramount
Bogota
Colombia
Minnesota Theater’s Brecht and Greek Double on Broadway
New York review compares Minnesota Theater Company’s Brecht burlesque The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with its Oresteia adaptation The House of Atreus. The critic finds Arturo Ui theatrically limited but notes potential with stronger staging, praising the Greek piece’s effective masked performance while criticizing Arturo Ui’s lead Robin Gammell and overall cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Bertolt Brecht
Arturo III
Hitler
Billy Rose
Minnesota Theater Company
Broadway
Minnesota
Edward Payson Call
David Ja Murrick
Merrick
Robin Gammell
Arturo
Levenson Proposes Geo Moral Year For Society
Humorist Sam Levenson suggests a Geo Moral Year every ten years to discuss social mores and directions. He promotes the idea in a new book, asking where God youth elders and purpose fit in and warning without public dialogue people may end up on a psychiatrist’s couch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Sam Levenson
Levenson
God
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Turns Twenty This Year
UPI reports songwriter John D Marks, dubbed the Mr Christmas of the music world, created Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in 1949. The tale and song propelled him to wealth as the famed reindeer story and royalties endure across records, sheet music, and a Burl Ives narrated TV special.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Rudolph
Johnny Marks
Mr. Christmas
Marks
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa
North Pole
Robert L. May
May
Greenwich Village
Columbia Records
Gene Autry
Autry
Madison Square Garden
America
Piccadilly
Tokyo
Burl Ives
John D. Marks
Mt. Verne
N. Y
Colgate University
Phi Beta Kappa
Margaret
Mozart
Bing Crosby
Movie Listings with Timings at Paramount Iowa Plaza Marion Collins
The notice lists theater showings for Monday and Tuesday including Paramount with Skidoo and shorts, Iowa Hellfighters, World Dr Dolittle, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Plaza The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, Marion Where Angels Go Trouble Follows and Duffy, Tuesday matinee Forty Pounds of Trouble, and Collins Drive-In closed except weekends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Duffy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leonard Lyons
Igor Stravinsky
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
Carlos P. Romulo
Philippines
U.N
The
Asia Foundation
University of the Philippines
Cyril Ritchard
the Four Seasons
Noel Coward
Cyril
Ritchard
George
Maria Callas
BBC
Mark Robson
London
Roundabout
Bobby Kennedy
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Rockefeller Center
Jimmy Ernst
Max Ernst
Ernst
Jimmy
Cesare Siepi
Boris Godunov
Lydia Chaliapin
Poris
Chaucer
Coghill
Murray Schisgal
Jimmy Shine
Dustin Hoffman
Stanley Steingut
Brooklyn
Assembly
Irwin Steingut
Tom Dewey
Steingut
Minnesota Theater
By Jack Gaver
Arturo Ul
Germany
Goebbels
FIRST
Tony
16Th Ave
Mt. Vernon
Linda Bennett
Pasadena
Miss Bennett
NBC
Bob Hope
Tonite AT & P
MGI Reemmers
Stanley Kubrick
Sara
Panavision
Rudolph the Famed Reindeer
By Gay Pauley
Temptations
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Crosby
Tri States Plaza
Preminger
Carol Wachael Constantine
Frank Gorson
Peter Lawford
Ee Mickey Rooney
Groucho MA
Technicolor
James Mason
Tonys
Smereate Saees
14Th Ave
Iowa
Hellfighters
Dr. Dolittle
2001: A Space Odyssey
Plaza
Collins Drive-In
Marion, Iowa
Thrift Box
Family
1St Ave
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