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Cropped Head. It was a good show, mostly because of the singable Rodgers music. Mary Martin was an effortless charmer as mistress of ceremonies, actress singer, dancer and keynoter ("What is the magic, what is the source of the secret . . . that sets Rodgers and Hammerstein apart from the others?") Mary, who had just closed the Broadway run of Kind Sir, cropped her hair again to sing her best-known South Pacific songs-I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening (with Ezio Pinza), and I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. John...
...General Foods celebrated its 25th anniversary by spending $250,000 to capture all four TV networks for a 90-minute show. Another $500,000 went into a glittering array of stars who tackled the job of re-creating the "great moments" from the musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein...
...city's dentists. Its college and graduate schools have turned out ten New York governors (among them: Thomas E. Dewey, LL.B. '25), and 14 New York City mayors. Simon and Shuster, Harcourt and Brace, and Alfred Knopf all went there; so did Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein II. In the newspaper field, Columbia boasts a variety of opinion-makers, from the Times's Arthur Hays Sulzberger to the New York Post's Editor James Wechsler to Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky...
...looking like a surrey with a fringe on the bottom, turned up in a mock audition skit at a party celebrating the closing, after nearly five years and 1,925 performances, of their famed Broad way musical South Pacific. Still the long-run champion of all musicals: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! with 2,246 performances...
...somewhat sloppy Valentina is Rodgers and Hammerstein's eulogy of the theatre, "Me and Juliet." The show has its hits, but it also has songs like "The Big, Black Giant," which can only detract from the composers' reputation. Joan McCracken makes the whole business worth the splashy effect...