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...child of doting, well-to-do parents (the Theatre Guild), Allegro has been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown...
...Theatre Guild told him that they were redoing Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs with a score by Dick Rodgers. Would he do the lyrics? He certainly would. After ten years of uncertainty, Hammerstein found in Oklahoma! the modern touch that "they" wanted. It consisted chiefly of a captivating simplicity that revolutionized musicomedy...
Pattern for Travel. They found it surprisingly easy to get around: only Kerr (who had offended the Yugoslavs with an earlier story) had visa trouble, and only in Yugoslavia were people unwilling to talk. In Helsinki, Attwood got nowhere with some Communists until he mentioned the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild; the Finns were first astonished ("How can you belong to a union and work for a capitalist paper?"), then friendly...
...weeks before a sponsor finally took it over. The wait was worth it: the sponsor, Lever Bros, (soap) is one of the biggest spenders in radio, and the time assigned to Irma, between Lever Bros.' big-time Lux Radio Theater and the only slightly less popular Screen Guild Players, is the second best in radio (the best: the expensive Sunday night half-hour between Jack Benny and Charlie McCarthy on NBC, now occupied by Alice Faye and Phil Harris...
...perfect crime" against the cause of labor, Lee Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, last night attacked the recent act section by section before a tightly-packed Law School crowd in Langdell Court. Pressman appeared as the guest of the University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild...