Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SKOWHEGAN, ME. Lakewood Theater. Essentially a family album of George M. Co han's music, George M! gives its regrets to Broadway for an era that has passed; it's the sort of show to which the audience comes already humming the songs, most of which hold up remarkably well...
Petite Molly Picon, who played the role on Broadway, leads a band of widows searching for second love in Israel, the land of Milk and Honey...
...stage-struck young beauty in 1933's Morning Glory, the prim but game Rosie in 1951's African Queen, the indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's The Lion in Winter. Yet nothing could capture the essential Hepburn better than her pose in the 1939 Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, as cool and serenely regal in slacks and blouse as Botticelli's Venus...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 35, Australian actress who won a Tony for her first big Broadway hit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Robert Whitehead, 53, her producer in the play: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...Lytton, 56, short-term titan of the savings and loan business; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A onetime theatrical pressagent, grade-B screenwriter ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written"), and scriptwriter for radio's Gangbusters, Lytton used Broadway promotional techniques to build his Los Angeles-based Lytton Financial Corp. into a $700 million business. Overextension and the collapse of the California housing boom started his downfall in the mid-'60s, and creditors moved in to depose him in April 1968. "Money," he once said, "can be merchandised...