Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predict that On a Clear Day You Can See Forever will be a solid smash on Broadway, yet also predictably the show will not set off the seismographic tremors that Alan Lerner has created in the past. Mr. Lerner has chosen to collaborate with the veteran composer Burton Lane, whose brilliant score for Finian's Rainbow of 1947 greatly influenced subsequent musical. The combination of two expect giants leads one to expect the ultimate, and the attempt to floor the audience certainly becomes obvious. But the show unhappily remains more an entertainment than an experience...
...Burton Lane's songs are lighthearted and lyrical, very much in keeping with the strange whimsy of this show. The title song gets caught in Louis Jourdan's throat and could profitably be eliminated, but the ballad "Melinda" lingers nicely. Once back in the days of yore, the Rabelasian dance numbers capture the theatre, due partly to the clever choreography of Herbert Ross. The sequence by the Publick Trysting Place, in particular, almost explodes with action. There can be little wonder that it should, however, for the budget of this show easily permitted the choreographer a fine stable of nimble...
...BURTON B. JERREL Des Moines
...took the lives of 92 pupils, injured 76 others, and left scores of parents with clear grounds for suing the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Understandably, the parents were loath to go to court against their own hierarchy. But in 1959, on behalf of five injured children, Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed a $1,750,000 damage suit charging that the archdiocese let the school become "a dangerous firetrap." After that, more and more plaintiffs upped the ante...
...afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not high-minded Smith College. Despite the unflattering references to the fictional school in Edward Albee's hit play ("Musical beds is the faculty sport here"), Smith is allowing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton the run of the campus for exteriors in the screen version of Virginia Woolf. Explained a Smith official: "As an educational institution we didn't feel we could conscientiously bar them from our premises." A Northampton chamber of commerce official was also unafraid...