Word: bolger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Time for everyone to step out once more on the yellow brick road to an enchanting evening in Oz with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. They may not make movies like they did in 1939, but at least they repeat them...
Died. George White, 78, theatrical producer, whose flashy, fleshy Scandals vied with Ziegfeld's Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities as the top Broadway attraction of the 1920s and '30s; of leukemia; in Hollywood. White introduced such future stars as Kate Smith, Ray Bolger, Rudy Vallee and Eleanor Powell to the Great White Way-which he always claimed was named...
...mood for broken doorbells and locked gates, having suffered through the last hour or more guarding the only pay phone within miles at the Malibu sheriff's office, trying vainly to break the Rex Reed busy-signal barrier. Suddenly, like Ray Bolger bouncing onstage for a final bow, he is there before me, has waved hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning...
Richard Nixon's celebrity roster is also brief-but heterogeneously charming. Its stars include Ray Bolger, John Wayne, Bart Starr, Ginger Rogers, Joe Louis and Rudy Vallee, who adjudges Nixon "the most qualified man in this country, intellectually and emotionally." Oddly, none of Ronald Reagan's former Hollywood colleagues have yet agreed in public that the Governor should move from Sacramento to Washington. To date, the only Beautiful Person who has declared for Nelson Rockefeller is Happy...
...toes were still as twinkly as ever, when Song-and-Dance Man Ray Bolger, 63, opened at the Waldorf's Empire Room in Manhattan. At 160 Ibs., he seemed in wonderful shape, too, until he capered midway through Begin the Beguine and suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of trousers splitting beneath his tails. With a laugh, he flew through the rest of his act, but next day decided to take steps. He trotted over to Saks Fifth Avenue, asked the rather elegant salesman for one pair of men's nylon tricot boxer shorts, pure black. The clerk blanched...