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...part was beefed up; Hammerstein spent two days writing the lyrics of a new song, and Rodgers retired to the Shubert Theater ladies' room (which during rehearsals was equipped with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five minutes over after-dinner coffee in a crowded room.) Result of the Boston change: Don't Marry Me, one of the brightest numbers in the show...
...British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of Representatives; Her Majesty's Governor General, Lord Hailes, will now name the 19-member Senate. Princess Margaret will inaugurate the legislature April 22 in the new capital, Trinidad's Port of Spain-and The West Indies will be in business...
...Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most of its time with the nurse, who tells herself that I'm Gonna Wash That...
From his father, Sukarno learned the Moslem faith and the seeds of nationalism; from his mother, the long cycle of Hindu epics that have sustained Bali in its centuries-old resistance to the Mohammedanism of the surrounding islands...
...After collecting a bet on the winning gelding Bali Ha'i at a race in Auckland, N.Z., Britain's touring Queen Mother Elizabeth got an even more pleasant surprise. When she presented a gold cup to Owner Sir Ernest Davis, Sir Ernest announced: "We have with us the greatest lady in the world. I want to present Bali Ha'i to her on behalf of the sporting public of New Zealand...