Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burrows; music and lyrics by Robert Goldman. Glenn Paxton and George Weiss; choreography by Jonathan Lucas). Take a masterpiece. Tear out half its pages. Stuff the empty places with songs and dances. Rebind in expensive period finery. Open on Broadway, and pray that it is another My Fair Lady...
That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, defended the two tutors to a table custom. 'Student-faculty relations are very good in our House; if everyone's system is like Dunster's there shouldn't be any trouble," he said...
...taping, Frankenheimer sandwiched his work in between his cast's commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune: "I'm getting murdered in the morning/ Ding dong the Bell is going to chime...
...late summer," added that he would withhold public Announcement as long as possible to avoid hurting sales of 1959 Chrysler models. Said he: "If our competitors come along with a small car, we'll come right along with them-but we don't want to be the fair-headed boys and be there first." Detroit did not see any chance that Colbert could be first, is convinced that he cannot market a small car before 1960, later than the target dates of both Ford and General Motors...