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...screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never has Show Boat seemed so filled to the scuppers with corn...
...from the News), and beginning this week the sponsor, Lincoln-Mercury, will pay more than $2,225,000 to keep the show on for its fourth year of television. Sullivan, who is a little dizzied by these boxcar numbers, remembers that the talent on his first program, including Rodgers & Hammerstein, who worked for nothing, cost only $270. He says: "We couldn't get the same people today for less than...
...King and I. The score of the newest Rodgers & Hammerstein hit. For listening purposes, Victor's album with Opera Stars Robert Merrill and Patrice Munsel joining voices with Pop Singers Dinah Shore and Tony Martin has the edge on Dacca's original-cast album starring Gertrude Lawrence...
...King and I (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; based on Margaret Landon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam; produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein) may not quite be Rodgers & Hammerstein at their best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
Rogers and Hammerstein have brought The King and I down from Boston to the St. James, on 44th, where their Oklahoma! ran so long, but the rest of the musical scene seems dominated by old-timers...