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MARRIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 63, author of book and lyrics for Brigadoon, Camelot and My Fair Lady; and British Actress Liz Robertson, 26; she for the first time, he for the eighth; in Billingshurst, England. Lerner, who earlier this month was divorced from College Administrator Nina Bushkin, met Robertson two years ago, when she was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in a London revival of My Fair Lady...
...FAIR LADY Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe
...stage. After all that time, it is a relief to know that the rain in Spain still stays mainly in the plain and that My Fair Lady is as loverly as she was in 1956. Frederick Loewe's music has lost none of its enchantment, and Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics, which of course owe more than a passing debt to George Bernard Shaw, seem more than ever to be models of literacy and wit. Some other musicals from the '40s and '50s-The Most Happy Fella, for instance-now seem dated; this...
...does he use them like the Thematic Apperception Test, in which viewers reveal personality patterns by constructing stories from a series of pictures. Instead he uses the images as an emotional icebreaker: "The initial response gives me cues about where to go from there." But Canadian Psychologist Paul Lerner, an expert on the Rorschach method believes Walker's approach may very well become a new diagnostic tool for assessing personality. "Like the Rorschach," Lerner says, "it could be used to show what aspect the patient pays attention to and what he ignores...
...trouble first surfaced in Camelot last June. Reviving his 1960 role as King Arthur in the Lerner and Loewe musical, Richard Burton gave audiences many knights to remember, but was vexed by what seemed to be bursitis. Burton, 55, missed only one of 319 performances on a cross-country tour that ended in Los Angeles. But in March he was forced to leave the show. His doctors diagnosed his illness as a degeneration of the cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when...