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...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 (Hail the Conquering Hero...
Group III. Upcoming in this category (which included A Taste of Honey, Becket and Irma La Douce, among other fall openers) is Producer-Director-Writer Dore Schary's The Devil's Advocate, based on the Morris West bestseller about a contemporary case of sainthood in Italy. In the past, while wearing each of the three hats, Schary has scored 50% of the time, while his leading actor, Sam (Guys and Dolls) Levene, good as he is, has had a loser a year since...
...Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Among the guests: Broadway's Elizabeth Seal (Irma La Douce). Color...
...Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal emerges as a delightful streetwalker-and street dancer-in a jaunty French musical that fills its Pernod bottles with the milk of human kindness...
...Irma La Douce. In a pert and piquant Parisian musical, Elizabeth Seal proves herself Broadway's yummiest yum-yum girl...