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...Broadway While the new shows are already trying out in the sticks, some of the better old ones have managed to stick through the summer. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues to sail along with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little...
Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards as are the musicals Camelot
Incoming President Vaughan Carrington Mason, 46, of Manhattan, criticized the King-Anderson bill, too. But, separating himself a little from all the harmony, he took after one of the A.M.A.'s favorite laws, the Kerr-Mills Act, which routes federal money to the states to set up medical-care plans for the near-indigent aged. So long as "states that do not even believe in the dignity of some of their citizens . . . deprive Negro citizens of their rights, what faith can I have that they will treat the sick, needy aged Negroes any better...
...coverage for the aged. A compromise resolution, beginning with seven "Whereases," paid lip service to the A.M.A. doctrine that the individual should provide for his own health care in old age. But it proposed that states stop dragging their feet on legislation to provide medical care for the aged (Kerr-Mills benefits are now effective in only 20 states), and demanded "fair and equal distribution of this aid, and its benefits to the Negro aged, in those states which historically discriminate undemocratically to the disadvantage of the Negro." The delegates adopted the compromise...
...humidity could float the Queen Mary up to the side entrance of the Waldorf, a Broadway production has to be exceedingly durable to survive, and, although the list of running plays has atrophied, summer visitors still have some good choices. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From...