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...Loesser, a song was melodrama in miniature: he loved the counterpoint of two hearts and voices in seductive competition, as in Baby, It's Cold Outside and many other contentious duets. They were an expression of his own tumultuous personality. During Guys and Dolls rehearsals, exasperated by Isabel Bigley's tentative attempts at I'll Know, Loesser stormed onstage and punched his leading lady in the nose. The show's Adelaide, Vivian Blaine, remembers him more fondly: "A lovable, raucous man with a deliciously evil laugh." Ever restless, he'd catch a few hours' sleep, start his composing...
These jeers greeted Johnny Bigley, 3, when he arrived at school last week in Pasadena, Md., escorted by his father. Johnny is too young to understand why he is being spurned by the older children, why all five of his classmates have boycotted the special speech-therapy course he attends, and why their parents sought a court order to bar him from the classroom...
Such assurances did not prevent two of the current cases from winding up in court. In both Council Bluffs and Pasadena, judges ruled that the afflicted children should be allowed to attend school but must submit to a daily inspection by school nurses. The Maryland judge stipulated that Johnny Bigley wear clothing that covers his lesions and ordered special precautions to protect the school employees who change his diapers...
Constancy, thy name is Rudy Vallee, 63. On Oct. 13, the onetime Vagabond Lover will complete his third full year on Broadway as J. B. Bigley, the executive who yearns for knitting and well-knit redheads. The star of How to Succeed in Business, etc. (which the French translate as Comment Reussir en Affaires) will thus have stayed with the show longer than any star in musical history. But in October he resigns to depart with his fourth wife, Eleanor (whom he married in 1949), for a nightclub tour. Why so faithful to show biz? Proudly displaying his four French...
With posies for the boss's secretary and ruses for the boss, J. Pierpont goes sonic. The boss is "J.B." Bigley, a pince-nezed P.G. Wodehouse caricature of a corporation president, which is precisely the way ex-Crooner Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts...