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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN :The Showmen
It was 8:30 a.m., May 19, 1961. I remember the time and date vividly. I was 13. School was Westminster. Elvis was king. No. 1 on the British charts was Floyd...
Cinema: The King And I
Chow's next role is as the King of Siam, opposite Jodie Foster as Anna, in a new version of the story Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicalized in...
BROADWAY: A Healing Guy
"When I was very much younger," wrote Oscar Hammerstein II in the introduction to a collection of his lyrics, "I thought that if I ever made all the money I...
Milestones, Jan. 14, 1980
MARRIED. Margaux Hemingway, 24, occasional actress; and French-born Film Maker Bernardo Foucher, 40; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Margaux's...
The Theater: The Careful Dreamer
(See Cover] Times Square lay in its nervous twilight of night and neon glow. The rubberneckers, the readers of the Daily Racing Form, the Liggett Romeos and...
Radio: Birthday Party
The major U.S. corporations are developing a new and expensive habit: when they feel the need for big-scale celebration, they buy up all the TV time in sight. ...
The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Nov. 30, 1959
The Sound of Musicwith Richard Rodgers supplying the music, Oscar Hammerstein the lyrics, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse the libretto, and with Mary Martin...
Television: Rear View
A cream-and-black Cadillac sedan pulled up before CBS's Manhattan studio 72 in an old Broadway and 81st Street movie house and deposited a greying man whose...
BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue
(See Cover) I went out at the Eastern Gate, I saw the girls in clouds; Like clouds they were, and soft and bright, But in the crowds I thought on the maid...
The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 9, 1951
The King and I (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; based on Margaret Landon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam; produced by...


