Broadway Notes From Leonard Lyons On Broadway
New York theater gossip notes from Leonard Lyons cover Jean Pierre Aumont’s American debut in a Bernstein play that toured San Francisco and Chicago but never opened here, with Katharine Cornell and understudy Gregory Peek. Also mentions Jose Ferrer producing Hair in San Juan, Gore Vidal’s An Evening With Richard Nixon opening, CBS Latin America tie-ins, Richard Harris touring theaters, and other showbiz tidbits including Lillian Hellman’s novel plans and a sharp quip from Harry Hershfield.
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New York
Jean Pierre Aumont
Heart Bernstein
San Francisco
Chicago
Aumont
Katharine Cornell
Lyons
Gregory Peek
Miss Cornell
Star of Broadway's 1776 Carries Over to the Movies
Hollywood profile of Howard DaSilva famed for his Broadway Franklin role in 1776. He recalls being blacklisted after the House hearings and later returning to film work via the Warner-Columbia movie adaptation. He discusses the casting by Jack L. Warner and his long road back to acting.
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John Q'Hara
Evans
Random House
George Furth
Twigs
Sada Thompson
Steve Sonsheim
Furth
Eliot Elisofon
Life
Africa
Sierra Leone
For
Howard DaSilva
Jack L. Warner
Columbia
DaSiva
Origins
Warner
Franklin
DaSilva
Hollywood
Paramount
David and Lisa
Theaters listing a mix of films and showtimes
Paramount presents Something Big with short reels. 10WA lists Play Misty for Me with multiple showings. World offers Bless the Beasts and Children with installments and shorts. Times for Going Home and Plaza showings include The Vanishing Prairie and The Living Desert. Stage 1 notes Koteh showings.
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Paramount
Vanishing Prairie
Living Desert
Koteh
Stage show listings with drive-in film times
Monday listings from Marion Collins Twixt Town and Twin East West. T R Baskin S550 stage 3 Man in the Wilderness T30 9 55 stage 4 Billy Jack I 45 9 55 Marion A B C of Marriage 6 30 8 9 30 Collins Drive In Wild in the Streets 7 15 Wild Angels 9 15 Twixt Town open weekends only Twin East open weekends rare Twin West open weekends only.
Katharine Hepburn Hospitalized in Boston
AP reports Katharine Hepburn is hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A spokesman says she is in good condition but would not disclose the reason for admission or the expected discharge date.
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Kath
Arine Hepburn
Palieot Aten Ial
Seid
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ne Illa
Yul Brynner Stars in TV Pilot King and I Version
New York UPI reports 20th Century Fox ordered a half hour pilot to launch a weekly series based on Rodgers Hammerstein’s King and I. Yol Brynner reprises the nineteenth century Siamese king learning Western manners from an English governess as television replaces stage.
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New York
UPI
Anna
Siam
20Th Centuy-Fox
Yol Brynner
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San Juan
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Richard Nixon
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Heaven
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Pierre Aumont
Andre Maurois
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Rosalind Blau Stevens
Cornell University Medical College
Medical Committee For Human Rights
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Muhler College
Casino Russe
Charles Azvancor
Jain Lahr
Lillian Hellman
Harry Hershfield
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