Word: hazel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wondered if you were aware of the relationship between Miss Russell and Hazel Washington, a charming Negro woman who entered the employ of the actress over a decade ago as a maid and subsequently became a business partner . . . This friendship, plus the many instances of charitable endeavor you cited in "The Comic Spirit," is the basis for an award to be presented to Miss Russell ... for her contributions in the field of human relations...
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCES (musical) : Rosalind Russell (Wonderful Town), Thomas Mitchell (Hazel Flagg...
...small, alert woman with greying hair and bright hazel eyes, she has lost none of her Viennese animation. Her billowing dresses are tailored for an Austrian peasant effect. She talks lightly of Washington society, Hong Kong social intrigue, New York or Paris fashions. But the observant visitor is not misled: Madame Rhee is a woman attuned to politics and power. She is present, or in the background, of most vital meetings. When she and Rhee met, their common language was English. Today she professes to have forgotten the German of her youth, and her English is so much better than...
...satire, Hecht's libretto is commonplace and even oafish; certainly Hazel Flagg uses a maximum of heavy artillery to inflict a minimum of wounds. Once again musicomedy, in the act of satirizing something else, has ended by satirizing itself-by pointing up its own excesses of color, blare, manpower and above all, length. Jule Styne's pounding music suggests a New York that never sleeps, and unconsciously gives the reason why Robert Alton's dances get to be relentlessly, unremittingly lively. If only there were less of everything in Hazel Flagg, it might...
...even as primitive satire, the story is more tolerable than the usual musicomedy romance. There are some amusing burlesque ditties-Who Is the Bravest? and Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...