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Died. Margaret Mayo (Lilian Clatten), 68, oldtime hit playwright (Baby Mine, Polly of the Circus) ; after long illness; in Ossining...
...Chato kept right on expanding into all the modern variants of journalism. His ruling passion was, and is, to educate his countrymen. He transformed the Brazilian press, introducing modern makeup, circus-type headlines, bylined news stories on the U.S. model. He created his own news in campaigns for amateur flying, a lavish art museum for Sao Paulo, a hundred child centers to provide free milk and medical care for youngsters in poorer districts all over Brazil. And he showed his competitors that undreamed-of revenues could be earned by convincing Brazilian businessmen that it paid to advertise. Always, he plowed...
...released this year is just as good s the first, which means it is very good. "Up the Street" deviates somewhat from the Band's previous crop of football songs; it groups four Sousa marches, "Stars and stripes Forever," "Washington Post," "Semper Fidelis," and "El Capitan" with two familiar circus the Double Eagle,"and a pair of local arrangement long overdue for recording, "Our director" and "Up the street...
...Year's Eve, laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...
Rose, 51, who has produced everything from a flea circus to opera, had an operation last month. After that, he gave up his syndicated newspaper column ("I've still got . . . a skinful of ache"), and is closing his Manhattan nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe. But last week he was eager to get on with his new job. His only previous TV experience has been in an advisory capacity on the half-hour Billy Rose Show (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC), a frequently effective dramatic series directed by Broadway's talented Jed Harris (The Front Page, Our Town, The Heiress...