Word: kander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPY TIME (RCA Victor). Can a successful world-traveled photographer ever find happiness settling down with a sincere schoolteacher in the small French-Canadian town of his birth? The answer is obvious, and so, too, are the music by John Kander and the lyrics by Fred Ebb from this routine Broadway show. Risking nothing, the songs accomplish little more. Star Robert Goulet comes across like a thin shadow of Maurice Chevalier. As one of the show's songs asks, "With Paris, Rome, Lisbon and Venice, why would anyone want to stay in St. Pierre?" Why, indeed...
Disappointed a second time, Sam Newhouse telephoned Newspaper Broker Allen Kander in Washington, D.C. He was down South. Where could he buy a newspaper? Try New Orleans, Kander suggested. Newhouse did. And just two weeks after that long-distance phone call, U.S. journalism's smallest publisher (5 ft. 3 in., 136 Ibs.) closed the biggest deal in U.S. journalistic history. For $42 million?more than three times what the Louisiana Territory cost the U.S. in 1803?Newhouse bought both of New Orleans' papers: the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 195,151 daily, 307,-983 Sunday) and its evening companion, the States...
...Family Affair (by John Kander, James and William Goldman) begins where other musicals leave off; that is, its first lines are "Will you marry me?" and "Yes." In the real world a healing numbness sets in after these words are spoken, but Affair's attempt to convey love's anesthesia at first brings out only the authors' thinnest whimsies. The affianced couple (Larry Kert and Rita Gardner) are a chilly pair, and the opening songs seem less clever than the stage furniture, which wheels magically around during scene changes...