Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making his Broadway debut. Radio Disk Jockey Richard Hayes is a personable and vocally authoritative Brad, but the show suffers from a split personality. In Act I, it hunts with the hipsters; in Act II, it dines by candlelight with the squares. By musical's end, the satiric fumes have evaporated, and The Nervous Set has merely settled down...
...from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
Last week it was George Burns, making his nightclub debut as a single (after three decades of radio, television and movies with his wife Gracie Allen), who supplied the big-name show. Later it will be Dorothy Collins, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Lombardo, Gisele MacKenzie in a line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease...
...aftermath of Slickey's debut last week, Osborne took out after the reviewers with Pelham's help. "Not one daily newspaper critic has the intellectual equipment to assess my work," thundered Osborne in Pelham-sponsored interviews. "They were professional assassins." Despite the assassins, The World of Paul Slickey was not yet dead...
...brilliant re-creator of Mark Twain as a septuagenarian platform lecturer is 34-year-old Hal Holbrook making his New York stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...