Bracken Tackles First Broadway Director Assignment
Eddie Bracken takes his first Broadway directing role with Beautiful Dreamer about a strip-tease performer who accidentally enters an art colony. Opening planned in October. The Coronet Theatre sold for 1.2 million. Lester Osterman buyer from City Playhouses. Coronet was auctioned in 1945 and redecorated. Sammy Davis Jr tours Europe pre Broadway with Free and Easy. Harold Arlen Johnny Mercer musical debuts in The Hague in October then Paris Berlin and other cities before Broadway tryout. Verdon current Redhead star. McLean was lead and Verdon’s standby.
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Broadway hit Redhead reunites Verdon and McLerie
New York production brings Gwen Verdon and Ilyn McLerie back together in Redhead after a years-ago pairing. A prior show they appeared in was withdrawn during out-of-town tryout.
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New York
Gwen Verdon
Llyn McLerie
Bermuda Celebrates Shakespeare as Island Marks 350th
A festival pageant This Is land s Mine honors Shakespeare to tie Bermuda summer celebrations to its 350th anniversary. The show suggests an ancient Bermuda shipwreck inspired The Tempest.
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New York
William Shakespeare
Bermuda
Broadway recording of J B with Daly Plummer Massey
A New York based recording captures the Pulitzer Prize play J B featuring Broadway cast members James Daly Christopher Plummer and Raymond Massey in the lead roles.
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New York
J.B
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Christopher Plummber
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Hal March to replace Dana Andrews in Two for the Seesaw
Hal March, famed TV quiz show emcee, will take the male lead role as Dana Andrews steps down on June 29 in the production Two for the Seesaw.
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New York
Hal March
Dana Andrews
Broadway buys untitled Crosby comedy for next season
John Crosby comedy acquired for Broadway presentation next season with sponsors William Darrid and Eleanore Saidenberg, who produced The Disenchanted this year. Shakespeare goes west as American Shakespeare Festival plans Pacific Coast branch in Stratford Connecticut.
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John Crosby
William Darrid
Eleanore Saidenberg
Stratford
Conn
American Shakespeare Festival
Pacific Coast
Sumerian Ode Lacks Luster in 3500-Year-Old Heartfelt Plea
Philadelphia AP reports Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer translates a 30-line Sumerian love ode carved on clay the size of a quarter. The verse repeats Oh her heart and My Queen as Kramer notes the poet’s passion contrasts with the tiny tablet.
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Samuel Noah Kramer
University of Pennsylvania Museum
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Louvre
Paris
Optometric Association Elects Gatten Virginia President
Dr. Ernest B. Gatten Jr. of Franklin was elected president of the Virginia Optometric Assn. at its annual meeting in Richmond, succeeding Dr. John R. Reid. The final session crowned the new leader.
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Ernest B. Gatten Jr
Franklin
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Gatten
Association
Stratford Company Plans Four-Week West Coast Visit
Lawrence Langner, chairman of the Stratford board, conferred with civic and theatrical leaders in Los Angeles and San Francisco about a four week tour for the Stratford company visiting both cities next fall.
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Lawrence Langner
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Stratford Company
AMA Withdraws Eastern State Accreditation
Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia loses accreditation by the American Medical Association due to staff shortages. Dr. Denver M. Vickers notes insufficient personnel for adequate patient care while Dr. Joseph E. Barrett runs the facility. The AMA action follows a protracted dispute over working hours and pay raises for attendants.
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Almond
Word of the Day ineluctable doom quoted
The passage presents ineluctable as an unovercome fate. It defines the term as irresistible and inevitable ineluctable doom appearing in a quoted line.
Surbanites Not to Blame For All of America's INs
A columnist argues suburbia is unfairly blamed for social conformity. He contends dinner routines, fear of wives, and suburban life shape culture as much as cities. Both settings show conformity, independent thought, and varied lifestyles with no clear moral superiority.
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Saul Pett
New York
I. I. Rabi
Columbia University
Ilas
Rabi
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