Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Chicago Sculptor Abbott Pattison got a commission to do four pieces of sculpture for the University of Georgia, he saw an opportunity to bring a touch of modernism to the sleepy, oak-shaded old campus. Pattison moved to Athens as sculptor in residence, last year put up his first work, a sharp-edged abstraction in marble. Somebody poured a can of green paint over...
...Pajama Game (music & lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross; book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell) wound up the season with as exuberant high spirits as New Year's Eve winds up the year. So high are the show's jinks, in fact, that they almost render unimportant the primitiveness of its jesting; and so engaging are a number of its people that it doesn't too much matter what they do. As staged by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game is a smash-hit mixture of racehorse and explosive; not in a long...
...George Abbott, co-author and co-director of Pajama Game, is the theater's Wizard of Odds: chances are that any show he brings to Broadway will be a hit. He started out as an odds-on favorite when he directed one of his first shows, Broadway, in 1926. Through the years he added such winners as Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, Pal Joey, Where's Charley, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, Me and Juliet...
Along with these successes, the legend of "the Abbott touch" could hardly fail to grow, but the showman modestly claims there is no such thing. "I just have a good time in the theater," he says. "I'm not out to make money; I'm out to enjoy myself . . . I'm easily bored, so I try not to bore audiences. I have been accused of speed in my shows, but pace is not a matter of speed. It has to do with cutting material and with variety." The most important intangible in a good production, he says...
...most cases, while Junior Fellows study in close connection with Professors in their field, they are under only the most general eye of the Senior Fellows. These form an unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...