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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower, and Bye Bye Birdie, a sprightly spoof of an Elvis-type monster...
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once and Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi. Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import-the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce. The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces-Send Me No Flowers (closed), Under the Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice. In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies...
...dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn. The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least 15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs...
...government-sponsored auction was held to pay for this year's 150th anniversary celebration of Argentina's independence from Spain, but the bidders were not driven by overpowering patriotism. New imported cars, particularly those big shiny Detroit wagons, are almost impossible to get in austerity-conscious Argentina; import duty on foreign cars is 300%, and, except to diplomats, no import permits at all are issued for cars weighing more than 3,300 lbs. Argentines were simply seizing a rare opportunity to buy-no matter how high the bidding went...
Pass the Handout. Flying home from his eight-week trip to the Soviet bloc. Wise Man Che Guevara brought his present for the newborn Cuba: agreements that make Cuba's shattered economy dependent on Russian handouts. The Reds promised to import such Cuban goods as hides and sugar, unneeded in Russia; they promised to send to Cuba a $250 million aid program, including an oil refinery, a steel mill, power plants. Added the joint communique: in case the U.S. "carries out its threat of not buying more sugar from Cuba," Russia commits itself to purchase 2,700,000 tons...