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...King and I (20th Century-Fox) has already completed one cycle (from Margaret Landon's bestselling 1944 novel, Anna and the King of Siam, to the 1946 movie, starring Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne) and is now busily completing another (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical to the current film...
...satisfactorily from spectacle to spectacle until the conclusion, when its message (democracy is good; slavery is bad) gets a truly pedestrian delivery at Yul Brynner's deathbed. But the jokes are pleasant, the children cute, and the songs, though familiar, have the springtime bounciness that mark Rodgers and Hammerstein's work...
...this Thursday evening, July 5, with Shakespeare's "Henry V," staged by the Old Vic director Douglas Seale and featuring Douglas Watson, Felicia Montealegre (Mrs. Leonard Bernstein), and Ian Keith. "Henry" runs through July 21, and on July 25 "The Beggar's Opera" opens, starring Shirley Jones of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Cinemascope fame. The final production of the summer will be Shaw's "Saint Joan," starring the Irish actress Siobhan McKenna, who won great acclaim in the role in Dublin and London a few seasons ago, and who made her American debut on Broadway this past season in "The Chalk...
...Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist LL.D...
Divorced. Henry Fonda. 51, drawling actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), screen (Mr. Roberts) and TV; by Susan Blanchard, 27, his third wife, sometime actress and stepdaughter of Producer-Lyricist Oscar (Oklahoma!) Hammerstein II; after five years of marriage, one child; in Reno...