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Fury in the North. The North, which has its own segregation faults, watched and smoldered with resentment. A Long Island summer-theater audience heard South Pacific Heroine Nellie Forbush say she was from Little Rock, stopped the performance with three minutes of furious boos and hisses. A drugstore clerk in Philadelphia admitted to human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed...
Married. Martha Wright, 29, sprightly singing star of stage and television (The Martha Wright Show), seasoned veteran of a record 1,047 performances as Nurse Nellie Forbush in the hit musical South Pacific; and George J. Manuche Jr., 34, New York restaurateur; in Newburgh...
After singing for her lunch at a meeting of the Women's National Press Club in Washington, Mary Martin learned that Governor Allan Shivers had promoted her from her South Pacific rank of Ensign Nellie Forbush to Admiral in the Texas Navy, thereby giving her equal Lone Star flag rank with Admirals Dwight Eisenhower (who recently also accepted the title of honorary president of the Camp Fire Girls) and onetime Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz...
...London, three years, seven months and some 1,500 performances after the Manhattan opening of South Pacific, Actress Mary Martin stepped out of her role of Nurse Nellie Forbush and turned it over to Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson. The next night Mary was doing a nightclub stint herself. She agreed to do a cabaret skit, including singing a duet (Baby, It's Cold Outside), with Friend Noel Coward. Occasion: a benefit performance for the London Actors Orphanage...
With the Crimson one man short, Ron Huebsch converted a perfect Bob Baldwin pass at 4:34 of the last period. Then came Forbush's two goals and the eventual denouement...