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...Minister of Labor and Welfare. Perón skillfully used that post to create a power base within Argentina's working class (known as los descamisados, the shirtless ones). Briefly imprisoned by his jealous military colleagues in 1945, Perón was freed when Maria Eva ("Evita") Duarte, who was soon to become his second wife, helped to organize mass demonstrations on his behalf. Elected President a few months later, Perón began building what he called the "third position" between capitalism and Communism, while Evita, until her death in 1952, built a Peronist personality cult among...
...nation's most sacred Marian shrine, 40 miles west of Buenos Aires. The Peronists had distributed leaflets through the capital and other cities with exhortations calling EVERYONE TO LUJÁN . . . WELCOME JOHN PAUL II ... THE POPE AND PERÓN ARE AS ONE GREAT HEART . . . EVITA IS A SAINT. As it turned out, with more than a million devout Argentines packing the square and streets in front of the shrine, the Peronists were lost in the crowd...
...conspiracy to drown out the voice. Some composers have turned from strings and woodwinds to ever louder brasses and electronic instruments. Even Ethel Merman, who has the strongest pipes in the business, might find it impossible to make herself heard over the electronic thunder of a musical like Evita...
...Evita earned $27 million during its two-year run at the Shubert; Peter Pan, which plays in a former movie house, the Pantages, made $482,706, a local record, in the week ending Jan. 3; the Wilshire has just reopened after refurbishing with A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. Yet producers of smaller plays, some of them by California playwrights, occasionally find it harder to locate theaters than audiences. William Bushnell, producing director of the L.A. Actors Theater, had no trouble filling his 174-seat house with Frank South's Two by South. But when he tried...
...disease; in Danbury, Conn. The son of Russian immigrants, Kay started his career in 1944 orchestrating On the Town, the first Broadway musical of his friend Leonard Bernstein. They later collaborated on Candide (1956 and 1973) and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976). Kay had three shows currently playing on Broadway: Evita, A Chorus Line and Barnum. Several of his best scores were musical Americana commissioned by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, and include Cakewalk (1951), Western Symphony (1954) and Stars and Stripes...