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...Love with a Wonderful Guy. Bing Crosby crooned It's Easy to Remember from Rodgers' 1935 movie Mississippi, Valerie Bettis danced the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet from 1936's On Your Toes. Other singers and dancers ran through assorted Rodgers numbers dating from his 1925 Garrick Gaieties to his current South Pacific...
Souvaine, apparently more interested in sentiment than mathematics, shrugs aside the fact that Rodgers' first Broadway show (A Lonely Romeo) was produced 32 years ago; his first hit (Garrick Gaieties), 26 years...
...second issue of Town Talk Yates wrote an impertinent, unfriendly piece about Thackeray, accusing him, among other things, of "an extravagant adulation of birth and position." Thackeray accused Yates of picking up gossip at the Garrick Club and managed to have him blackballed. Dickens, who had been the subject of a flattering piece in the first issue, defended Yates, although he condemned the article and wrote that the entire incident, which had become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly...
...Dudley Commuters have a arty and dance at the Commuters Center.ANNE MILLS '54 (left) and THOMAS G. VICKERY '53 fight a duel in the final not of the House play at Adams last night. The production was "The Lying Valet," David Garrick's Restoration farce. The other play, "On the House," was given at Dunster. "It contained a series of four sketches based on plays of Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and arranged with his cooperation...
Hold the Apples. Young Boswell wasted no time in pushing himself forward. He chatted easily, had a knack for making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems...