Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...
...tell you that this production is even better." With that, he seated himself at a piano and ripped off half a dozen numbers from the show, and then tossed in Mac Namara's Band. Leaving the stage, he sat down to watch and loudly cheer Leave It to Jane - for the 30th time this year. All through the show there were tears in his eyes and bravos on his lips...
...firm drew up a contract between Perky and the show's producers giving their man the right to play the piano, to address the audience, and not to be referred to by flacks as a "millionaire" or even "rich" (nonetheless, he is wealthy). Since Jane is off Broadway, the playhouse's 175 seats were his for only $300. One extra: Perky, whose father was Princeton 1881, slipped Actor Monroe Arnold a ten-spot to change the target of a snide remark from Old Nassau to Yale...
Born. To Ashley Cooper, 23, world amateur-tennis champ (1958) recently turned pro; and Helen Wood, 21, Miss Australia of 1957: their first child; in Brisbane, Australia. Name: Lisa Jane. Weight...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Variety with Jimmy Durante in Give My Regards to Broadway. Guests: Eddie Hodges, Jane Powell, Jimmie Rodgers, Ray Bolger. Color...