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...till September. In the meantime, the fittest shows survive both heat and familiarity. Among the musicals still leg-kicking: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello!, a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three...
Born. To Philip Lang Crosby. 25, one of Bing's balladeer boys, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 21, onetime Las Vegas showgirl: their second child, first son, the Groaner's fourth grandchild (one adopted) ; in Los Angeles...
...West Germany aging (25) Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, due for release from the U.S. Army in March, was promoted from specialist four (in a motor pool) to acting sergeant, but will get no pay boost (from his present $135.30 a month) until his promotion allocation is confirmed. Explained his commanding officer, a captain: "He has earned the job. We need a good man right away...
Booked into Montreal's high-tariff El Morocco nightclub, the four singing sons of aging (55) Groaner Bing Crosby soon found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short...
...bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...