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ShowsNEW YORK (UPI)—Two all-American productions won top honors in Sunday night’s competition for the Broadway theater’s annual Tony Awards.The best drama honor went to Howard Sackler’s “The GreatCoedsplans were being made to increase the figure to “at least 1,000” at an unspecified future date. The university said thatthere would be no cutback in the 3,200-male undergraduate enrollment.Another all-male Ivy League school, Yale University in New Haven, Conn., has also decided to admit women for the first time this fall. The 268-year-old institution will admit about 575 female freshmen and transfers.Tonythehea-JackWhite Hope,” based on controversial career of vyweight boxing champion Johnson.The best musical was judged to be “1776,” dealing with the struggle to create the Declaration of Independence. Peter Stone wrote the libretto, and Sherman Edwards created the idea and supplied the lyrics and music.The major acting awards went to stars James Earl Jones of “The Great White Hope” and to Julie Harris of “Forty Carats” in the dramatic category, and to Angela Lansbury of “Dear World” and Jerry Orbach of “Promises, Promises” in the musical field.“The Great White Hope” and “1776” tied in the number of awards, each getting three. “Promises, Promises” was the only other to get more than oneaward. Seven of the 15 awards were scattered among as many attractions.The results were revealed in an NBC-TV color special hosted by Alan King and Diahann Carroll before a celebrity-studded audience at the Mark Hellinger Theater.Productions between March 20, 1968 and March 16, 1969 were eligible in the competition. After a committee of experts picked nominees in the 15 categories, 434 persons variously connected with the stage voted under auspices of the League of New York Theaters.APO San Francisco 96503 Published daily; $2*50 per month, Second* class postage, paid at San Francisco. Calif,
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Wed, Apr 23, 1969
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