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Once upon a time there were two Kerrs, Mama Kerr and Papa Kerr. (There were a lot of baby Kerrs too, but you can read all about them in Mama's best-seller.) One day, Mama Kerr said to Papa Kerr, "Walter, let us write a musical. A musical with lots of sentiment and lots of laughs and lots and lots of old-fashioned goodness...
...Jean," said Papa Kerr...
...What shall we use for a plot?" said Mama Kerr...
Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...
Round Table was taken to California by Kerr and promptly began to earn his keep on the hard-surfaced tracks that were to his liking. Kerr brought him east for the 1957 Kentucky Derby, where he finished a good enough third behind Ralph Lowe's Gallant Man and Calumet Farm's Iron Liege, then passed up the prestigious Preakness and Belmont to campaign against easier pickings in California. By season's end Kerr...