Word: gower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway Bye Bye Birdie. Director Gower Champion's fresh and frantic musical about an Elvis-type crooner swings through the evening like a pendulum gone wild...
...basement rooms in Gower Street are headquarters for the Committee of African Organizations. Working at tiny desks, surrounded by trestle tables loaded with duplicating machine, proofs and pamphlets, each African concentrates on his job regardless of the surrounding conversation, loud argument and clatter of machines. When the rooms overflow, the conversations move outside to the cellar steps or across the road to a cheap cafe. At headquarters one morning last week were representatives from the Southern Rhodesian Congress Committee Abroad, the Revolutionary Front for National Independence of Portuguese Colonies, the Tanganyika Students Association, the National Association of Socialist Students...
Most London Africans, who will one day be members of the ruling class in their native lands, share either the bone-deep bitterness of Adumah or the puzzled frustration of the girl from Nigeria. At the Shah Restaurant, off Gower Street, a haunt of African intellectuals, Tanganyika's Martin Kazuka explained: "You can put through an Act of Parliament, if you like, or set to work educating your children-both will take a long time. But the real thing that will solve these problems of prejudice is the independence and progress of our African countries. Only by our achievements...
...Birdie. A rampageous musical about a pelvoid crooner (Dick Gautier) and the howling but engaging pack of teen-agers who pursue him. As staged by Gower Champion, the show is fresh, playful, lustily breezy. With Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford...
...Birdie. A rampageous musical about a pelvoid crooner named Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier) and the howling pack of teenagers who pursue him. As staged by Gower Champion, the show is fresh, playful, lustily breezy. With Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford...