Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front row (left to right): Charles P. Abbott of New Orleans, La. and Thayer Middle David S. Albertson of Newton, dass, and Dudley; Walter A. Baker of Columbia, Ky. and Thayer South; John Larbor of Philadelphia and Matthews North Marshall L. Berkman of Pittsburgh, Pa, and Wigglesworth; Thomas O. Bernheim of New York, N.Y. and Wigglesworth; Charles A. Birbara of Worcester, Mass, and Straus North...
...Your Toes (Richard Rodgers-George Abbott), a revival of the 1936 musicomedy, opens in October with Vera Zorina, Bobby Van, Elaine Stritch; choreography by George Balanchine...
...from Italy and Spain, and filled it with, a museum-like array of fine statues, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and silver. Publisher Patterson is too busy for household affairs, lets her secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because...
Periodically, Ross and Adler sang and played their songs for Veteran Producer George Abbott ("one of the most frightening experiences we ever had"), and last fall, after three years of hearing their offerings, Abbott gave them the script for Pajama Game (from Richard Bissell's novel 7½ Cents})-and a month in which to write the first four songs. The big audition came on Christmas Eve, when they performed the songs for a battery of theatrical big guns. "We were scared to death," says Adler. "It was a lousy Christmas Eve." But next day they were told...
...Pajama Game (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy Jr., Carol Haney, Stanley Prager; Columbia LP). The song list of the George Abbott-Richard Bissell hit has a few nifties: Hey There, Her Is, There Once Was a Man (a satire on hillbilly tunes), and Hernando's Hideaway (a take-off on tangos...