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Immediately after the last meeting in January, associate professor Lewis S. Feuer allegedly struck Platonist Joseph Katz, an assistant professor, during a heated extension of the argument which had raged throughout the meeting...
...department met again and split as expected, with professor Vernon Venable, the chairman, and associate professor Morris Weitz lining up with Katz, Feuer's partisans were the three instructors, Mary Mothersill, Paul J. Spielberg, and Jerome Richfield...
Finally President Blanding moved, ordering the dismissal of the four, and later allowing them to resign voluntarily. Feuer, who received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1935, and Richfield did not return for the spring term, but Miss Mothersill and Spielberg remained to finish the academic year...
This shrewd policy, enabling them to strike while the ticket is hot, points up the arrival of Cy Feuer, 40, and Ernest H. Martin, 31, in the first rank of theatrical producers. Feuer, who once headed a movie studio's music department, and Martin, a onetime radio executive, have now produced two shows, and both turned out to be hits. They launched their partnership by starring Ray Bolger in 1948's Where's Charley? (792 performances), which is currently enjoying a profitable return engagement...
Unlike many producers who read scripts until they find one they like, Feuer & Martin conceived the idea for the Bolger show (a musical version of Charley's Aunt), built it from the ground up. Inspired by the late Damon Runyon's raffish fables, they did the same with Guys and Dolls. Except for Pat Rooney Sr., who last appeared in a Manhattan playhouse in 1918, none of the new show's principals has ever played in a Broadway musical before. But Guys and Dolls, three months old, will recoup its $177,000 investment before...