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...20th Century-Fox movie titled High Time, Crooner Bing Crosby, 56, plays the role of a middle-aged restaurateur who hankers for a college education. After matriculating in a Southern institution, Crosby has to survive a fraternity initiation requiring him to crash a cotillion ball as a belle. All trigged up in a blonde wig, false eyelashes, lipstick, rouge and falsies, Crosby volunteered: "No wonder the ladies of the day got the vapors and fainted. I feel like a barrel with the staves too tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Birdie. A rampageous musical about a pelvoid crooner (Dick Gautier) and the howling but engaging pack of teen-agers who pursue him. As staged by Gower Champion, the show is fresh, playful, lustily breezy. With Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Birdie. A rampageous musical about a pelvoid crooner named Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier) and the howling pack of teenagers who pursue him. As staged by Gower Champion, the show is fresh, playful, lustily breezy. With Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 16, 1960 | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...opening week of a month's concert tour of Europe, at Paris' Palais de Chaillot, Crooner Nat ("King") Cole packed in the locals, racked up a whopping $10,000 gross in one big night. The house was his, in some individual cases hysterically, and foremost among his backstage admirers was glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich, who this week will begin her own tour of West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Birdie. A rock-n-roll call of teen-agers surrounding an Elvis Presleyish crooner named Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier). As staged by Gower Champion, the fresh and sometimes frantic musical crashes through the evening with all the zip of a bowling ball on the loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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