Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom he was previously married from 1956 to 1959. (His first two wives: the late Fanny Brice and Big Dipper Eleanor Holm.) For Joyce, even a nuptial doubleheader was no novelty, two of her four earlier flounces to the altar having been made with Milton Berle...
...Ride!, is a song-and-dance adaptation of the John Cecil Holm-George Abbott 1935 hit play Three Men on a Horse, about a gentle soft-spoken greeting-card poet named Erwin Trowbridge, who has an infallible talent for doping out horse-race winners. As the Poet Trowbridge, George Gobel should have been a natural. Instead, the only thing that stands up in his performance is his crewcut. He is so meek, mild, and mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel...
...MUSICALS: George Gobel. making his Broadway debut, will wander innocently through a scrimmage of pimps, hoods and horseplayers in Let It Ride, a musical version of the 1935 George Abbott and John Cecil Holm farce, Three Men on a Horse (Oct. 6). Milk and Honey, set in Israel and involving American tourists, stars Yiddish Comedienne Molly Picon (Oct. 10). How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying may reveal some of the inner secrets of its director, Abe Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject...
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: sprightly Celeste Holm in Invitation to a March...
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Celeste Holm takes Invitation to a March way off Broadway...