Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dramas. The only other interesting things in a generally dull TV week were two plays, one a drama of life, the other a drama of death. Anita Loos's Happy Birthday on NBC's Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) starred Betty Field in the role made famous on Broadway by Helen Hayes. It is the bittersweet tale of how a spinster librarian goes into a bar in pursuit of happiness and finds life and liberty there as well. Betty Field did a creditable job as the librarian in a long and unlikely drunk scene...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Happy Birthday by Anita Loos, starring Betty Field, Tina Louise, Luella Gear...
Many thanks for the mention of my opera, The Birthday of the Infanta, in your issue of May 28. The "happy returns" are already coming in with eleven performances in the offing, publication and recording. A small correction, though...
When Queen Elizabeth passed out Birthday Honors last week, she awarded the Order of the British Empire to a Flying Angel. The Rev. Cyril Brown, 52, sports no wings and looks more like a white-haired Pat O'Brien than a member of the heavenly host, but the organization he runs is better known in the world's seaports and ship lanes by its nickname, the Flying Angels, than by its official title, Missions to Seamen...
...Docker even more tearfully: "It's not the loss of the gold cars that makes me feel like this. And weren't they fun? They were like my children. No, it's that lovely party I was planning for 25,000 B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...