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...block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
...More Year. The show's producer, Robert Fryer, says that no one but Rosalind Russell was ever considered for the part of Ruth in Wonderful Town. Joseph Fields, who wrote the book with Jerome Chodorov, has never met anyone as quick and bright in the theater: "Ros learned her part in two days and was tireless in rehearsals." She also worked herself into the flu in the New Haven tryout and went on opening night with a temperature of 103°. There was more trouble: a chorus boy had dropped her during the conga and in Boston...
Self-Defense. In Rutherford, N.J., Magistrate Allen C. Mathias ruled that Filling Station Operator John Valk Jr. was not guilty of assault in chasing Frank W. Fryer, who, without buying any gas, insisted that Valk wipe his windshield, check his tires, test his battery...
...Peter Fryer consulted it for a week, then replied: "I have given my word that ... I shall not engage in public Communist activities. . . . But I am not able to go further because . . . my beliefs are so much a part of my life that it would not be possible...
Even a year ago there would have been angry cries all over England that Reporter Fryer's personal rights had been violated. There were no such cries last week...