Word: bigley
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Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn...
...cast itself has no flaws. Isabel Bigley is big and attractive in voice and frame as a chorus girl who renounces a brutish electrician for the assistant stage manager. As her suitors, Mark Dawson and Bill Hayes each have powerful stage voices but too little to do with them; the shifts between the backstage plot and the on stage musical are so frequent that none of the principals is seen often enough. This is especially true of Joan McCracken, pixie-faced little dancer whose number, "It's Me," is the show's comic high point. Helena Scott, Juliet...
Triangle. Near Lorain, Ohio, Susan Back told police that she stabbed her boy friend, Sherman Bigley, in the hip because he had stolen the affections of her pet monkey...
...Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...
...front-of-the-book-first reader of this magazine, settled down to NATIONAL AFFAIRS. About Denver, he flipped to the RADIO & TELEVISION section, and did a double take. There, in a story about a British Broadcasting Corp. television show, was a picture of 22-year-old Isabel Bigley. "The story said she was good and the picture looked right," remembers Ernie, "so I asked my partner [Cy Feuer] to look her up in London...