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...opportunity came when Robert Griffith, the stage manager of Wonderful Town and Prince's longtime mentor, spotted a novel called 7½?. Within a week, the pair had bought theatrical rights. A stockbroker's son but less than rich, Prince spent six months giving living-room auditions for potential backers; 15 chorus girls from Wonderful Town put up their pin money. The upshot was something called The Pajama Game. Within 14 weeks all the investors had got their original money back -the first of many payments that would eventually amount to a 774% profit...
...Ophuls, as Griffith, appeals unerringly to our unspoken but only rarely articulated assumptions about ourselves. Christian de la Masiere is cool, calm, collected and seemingly able to put a distance between his reflective and active selves. No matter how much we may hate the words and ideas he expresses, we cannot help but admire and respect these qualities. Our emotional response to these qualities of character transcends our abhorrence of the man's actions...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "The Girl and Her Trust" and "A, Temporary Truce" by D.W. Griffith and "Western History" by Stan Brakhage, "Nostalgia" by Hollis Frampton and "Running Shadow" by Robert Fulton. Feb. 8, 7:30, $1. Vladimir and Rosa by the Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) Feb. 11, 7:30, free (sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
...went on to compete for LIFE's readers and advertisers, my bonds with the LIFE staff remained strong. That experience was typical. One of LIFE's great managing editors, John Shaw Billings, had earlier been managing editor of TIME. Many LIFE staffers, including Editor Thomas Griffith, began their careers at TIME. In turn, the TIME staff has benefited from many LIFE graduates, including Senior Editors Timothy Foote and Leon Jaroff. Hugh Sidey served simultaneously as TIME's Washington bureau chief and a prized LIFE columnist. For years the correspondents of the TIME-LIFE News Service worked...
Divorced. Andy Griffith, 46, drawling, country-boy actor (No Time for Sergeants, A Face in the Crowd), who went on to an eight-year TV stint as the corn-bread sheriff of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show; and Barbara Griffith, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...