Broadway By Leonard Lyons News Notes and Highlights
U Thant urges LBJ to keep Goldberg at the U.N. and Clark Clifford joins White House talks. Hedging notes cover Baum, Goldwater, music plans for Alfred Drake and Myrna Loy, Angela Lansbury projects, and a Vienna theater debut in Israel. Arts and TV figures, premieres, and social events thread through: Rubinstein, Khachaturian, Broun, encyclopedia TV survey, and the Warren Commission TV defense.
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Ciro Kroon
Alfred Drake
Myrna Loy
Ray Milland
Angela Lansbury
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Heywood Hale Broun
Nick Colesi
Cecil Brown
Theater listings and showtimes for several venues
Monday listings include Paramount Theatres An niversary shorts at 1 45 3 45 5 40 7 40 9 40 Iowa Bonnie and Clyde 1 40 3 45 5 55 8 10 shorts 1 30 3 35 5 40 7 50 9 55 World A Matter of Innocence 1 20 3 20 5 25 7 30 9 30 shorts 1 3 8 05 7 05 9 10 Times The Bible 8 Plaza Counterpoint 6 8 10 Marion Tony Rome 7 30 9 30 shorts 7 20 9 20 Collins Drive In The Ghost and Mr Chicken 7 15 Evil of Frankenstein 9
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Marion
Tony Rome
Collins Drive-In
Ghost and Mr
Broadway First Night Eden Makes a Weak Musical
Broadway review of Here's Where I Belong at Billy Rose theater notes a weak adaptation of East of Eden with uninteresting libretto and mediocre score. Cast earns mixed praise for Callie Aaron and Abra Bacon. design by Ming Cho Lee and Ruth Morley. Mitch Miller criticized for production choices. public tone and evaluative consensus from multiple outlets included.
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East of Eden
Theatre critics praise Ming Cho Lee scenery in chorus of praise
Clive Barnes of The New York Times lauds Ming Cho Lee for distinguished scenery while criticizing the musical’s book as clumsy and leaden. John Chapman of The New York Times notes the cast deserved better from the material.
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New York
S Times
Ming Cho Lee
Hollywood gala for Half a Sixpence benefits Eddie Cantor Foundation
Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosted a star studded premiere for Half a Sixpence with Milton Berle hosting and Carol Channing, Kirk Douglas, Danny Thomas, and Frank Sinatra figures in attendance. The show features Tommy Steele and Geoffrey Unsworth’s praised camerawork. Gene Hackman heads Oscar contenders as he relocates to Hollywood, while Edd Byrnes signs eight films in five years. The event also honors Danny Thomas and supports St. Jude hospital. Frank Sinatra to receive Histadrut Medal in Nazareth.
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Sammy Davis, Jr
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Angie Dickinson
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Ann Miller
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Robert Evans
George Sidney
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Grover Dale
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CBS Producer Wounded Twice in Vietnam
Russ Beasley, CBS producer for Walter Cronkite’s evening news, was wounded Friday at Khe Sanh and treated in Da Nang. He was wounded again Monday when the hospital was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, remaining in satisfactory condition.
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Vietnam
Beatles Hungry After Meditation Retreat in India
AP reports from London that John Lennon Paul McCartney and George Harrison in Rishikesh India appealed for canned fruit and meat while meditating with guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Ringo Starr and his wife have just returned from the retreat.
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Maharishi Mahesh
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