David Cryer Joins Fantasticks Cast In Off Broadway
David Cryer son of a Methodist pastor joins the Fantasticks as narrator in the off Broadway hit that recently marked its third birthday. The piece stars eight performers and is praised by critics for its blend of sophistication and warmth.
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David Cryer
Donald W. Cryer
First Methodist Church
David
New York World Telegram and Sun
Norman Nadel
Harvey Schmidt
Re Red
Alice Cannon
Rochester
N. Y
Eileen Fulton
North Carolina
Earl Wilson
Threepenny Opera
Signet Classic Shakespeare Series Launch
New American Library introduces Signet Classic Shakespeare a complete 37 play set priced 56 cents per volume. Volume launches include King Lear Macbeth Othello Richard II The Winter's Tale with sources criticism introductions notes and bibliographies. Additional titles Hamlet Julius Caesar As You Like It A Midsummer Night's Dream Troilus and Cressida follow.
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Signet Claassic
Sylvan Barnet
Signet
Shakespeare
New American Library
Julius Caesar
Troilus
Cressida
House of the 10 000 Pleasures reviewed in Signet paperback
Sara Harris analyzes modern Japanese women in House of the 10 000 Pleasures based on interviews with geisha, prostitutes, bar workers, and officials. The Signet paperback covers geisha life, changing roles, and social context amid Harris’s sociology background and prior works.
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Sara Harris
Japan
New American Library
Harris
New York State Training School For
Chicago State Hospital
Chicago Urban League
Signet
Skid Row
USA
John M. Murtagh
New York
Best Selling Paperback List Highlights Classic Titles
A snapshot of current paperback best sellers featuring Prologue to Love Cald well My Life in Court Nizer The Rothschilds Mor The Guns of August Tuchman The Power of Positive Thinking Peal Captain Newman Rosten The Pennant Race Brosnan Hornstein's Boy Travel Control for Cancer Kittler Fox in the Attic Hugh es The Spy Who Loved MF Fleming The Long Light of Dawn Farris The Curse of Jezebel Slaughter.
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Nizer the
Tuchman
Peal
Newman
M. D
Rosten
Brosnan Hornstein
Travel Control
Kittler Fox
Hugh
Spy
MF. Fleming
Farris
Slaughter
New Notables In Paperbacks And Theater Titles
A listing highlights Robert Paul Smith new paperback Cranksmanship World War II novel PIED PIPER by Nevil Shute ABC by Marlene Dietrich A LOSS OF ROSES by William Inge adapted film The Stripper Bantam price 40 cents to 60 cents
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CRANK
Robert Paul Smith
Popular Library
Nevil Shute
Marlene Dietrich
ABC
Avon
William Inge
Lila
Madge
Cherie
Deanie
Bantam
Best Sellers List Updated With Recent Fiction and Nonfiction
The latest hardcover charts show Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction by Salinger joined by The Glass Blowers and The Sand Pebbles. In nonfiction Travels with Charlie and The Whole Truth and Nothing But sit top while The Fire Next Time and Happiness Is a Warm Puppy also rank high.
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Carpenters
Seymour
Salinger
du Maurier
McKenna
Knebel and Bailey
Granmothers
THE
the Priests
Caldwell
Charley
Steinbeck
Hopper and
Brough
Hughes
Baldwin
Schulz
Publishers’ Weekly
Gospel show The Black Nativity set for American tour
The gospel song show The Black Nativity will begin its first American tour next season after an off Broadway success. Martin Tahse sponsors the domestic swing, following his season management of the Helen Hayes Maurice Evans tour in A Program for Two Players based on Shakespeare.
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New York
Europe
Martin Tahse
Helen Hayes
Maurice Evans
Bas
Shakespeare
Moon Advantages Promise Big Changes In Space Weather
AP reports that a lifeless lunar surface offers no weather disturbances and extreme temperature shifts but enables innovations in solar energy storage insulation and vacuum physics. Experts like Homer A. Boushey and Jack A. Kraft foresee lightweight structures, vacuum insulation, and laser communications shaping early moon bases and data transmission.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Homer A. Boushey
Air Force
Boushey
Scientific Space Co
United States
Jack A. Kraft
Earth
Moon
Lunar
Amis Wit More Than Supericial Comedy
Review of Amis Harcourt Brace collection about a British Army communications unit in the final days of the war. Notes wit and social critique beyond superficial humor, with stories on reform pressures among soldiers, officers, social workers, a young date, a married woman, and a science fiction tale. verdict calls first half best.
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Ga Amis, Harcourt, Brace
Amis
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