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...show can even close on the road before reaching Broadway in any form. Last year, Merrick's Mata Hari (which cost as much as Tiffany's) folded in Washington shortly after a disastrous benefit - premiere during which scenery collapsed and the leading lady was caught nude on stage in a costume change. Merrick evidently found the show unfixable, sent director Vincente Minelli back to California, and auctioned off the sets to to Washington University play-houses...
...Hari Dillon, a Central Committee member of the Third World Liberation Front, said that "for the first time in a mass way the students are fighting back...The main thing the administration used was the armed force of the state...
...Firing Squad's Guest. All three hotels go back to the days when princes and the very rich turned their large suites into homes away from home. Mata Hari, who received her suitors, and betrayed them, at the Athenee, may have been its only guest to face the firing squad. Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller II, and Charles Evans Hughes were among its loyal clientele; even today, the Fords and Rockefellers wouldn't dream of staying anywhere else. Greek shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view...
...Hollywood's Vincente Minnelli to direct, plus a buildup for curvaceous Star Marisa Mell that included coverage in Vogue and McCall's. But Merrick was wrong. After a ludicrous Washington preview at which everything from the scenery to the sound system came apart at the seams, Mata Hari opened to lethal reviews...
Last week Producer Merrick, who modestly describes himself as "the most vital force in the theater today," decided once again that mortality is sometimes the better part of vitality. He decreed that Mata Hari would have to be shot before opening on Broadway. Last year he similarly closed Breakfast at Tiffany's, losing a mere...