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...called This Was Burlesque, starring Ann Corio, durable (circa 50) doyenne of U.S. strippers. And Harold Minsky, whose very name used to mean runways and rhinestones, tassel twirlers, talking women and top bananas, is back in town with a new show for the first time since militantly moral Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banished burlesque and even the word Minsky from theater marquees...
...maximum of individual freedom of action consistent with behavior which is not predatory or antisocial." Advice from Beyond. After winning his Ph.D., David sought education of a different kind, signed on as a dollar-a-year political "intern" on the staff of New York's fiery reform mayor, Fiorello La Guardia. The main accomplishment of his 18-month stint: suggesting that merchan dise display cases be set up at La Guardia Airport to increase city revenues, and using his formidable name to convince businessmen that they should lease space...
Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: Fiorello!, with Tom Bosley, who created the role on Broadway...
...along with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers and Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady...
Louis Lefkowitz, Republican, who doggedly fought his way up from an East Side Manhattan slum to Fordham Law School, a city judgeship under Fiorello La Guardia, and a successful private practice, has served 4½ years as a hard-working state attorney general. Elated by the rift in Democratic ranks, New York City's feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts...