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Show business people, however, display a special affinity for unemployment compensation. As soon as Nanette Fabray finished her starring stint in the Broadway musical Mr. President, she headed for the Manhattan unemployment office to collect her $52 a week. In Hollywood, so many notables line up at Club 55 that movie people refer to it as "Central Casting." Says Chick Chandler, longtime character actor and Club 55 regular: "If you wanted to cast a very fine picture, from producers to hairdressers to extras, you could do it all by standing here for a week...
...President impeaches taste and demeans the considerable talents of Robert Ryan and Nanette Fabray, but the public has given this musical an unparalleled vote of confidence with an advance ticket sale of over...
...President, with Robert Ryan in the title role and Nanette Fabray as First Lady, is a taste-exempt musical that is bulging with more than $2,600,000 in advance-ticket-sale swag. The patrons of its 385 theater parties (largely benefit affairs) may redefine playgoing for charity as "painful giving...
...President, with Robert Ryan in the title role and Nanette Fabray as First Lady, is the worst musical on Broadway, despite its impressive credits, but $2,650,000 in advance ticket sales will make it as durable as a bad penny...
...pros can fail, it also points up a danger to which seasoned theater hands are prone, that of substituting showmanly expertise for solid substance. Despite a disclaimer, the character of President Stephen Decatur Henderson (Robert Ryan) is fairly obviously modeled on Ike, and his First Lady (Nanette Fabray) could double for Jackie Kennedy. This opportunistically split ticket suggests the synthetic viewpoint of a show that never intended to say something, but merely to trade on exalted somebodies...