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Written by Alan Jay Lerner, "Paint Your Wagon" is the story of post-Gold Rush California, of the ever-hopeful men that wandered the hills in search of one good strike. It is the story of an old speculator, Ben Rumson, and his daughter, and a mining camp...
...play must be compared to something, "Oklahoma" is somewhat of a parallel. In his book, Mr. Lerner has captured much of the earthiness that made the Lynn Riggs play such a great Broadway success...
...American in Paris is a product of many talents and a triumph of teamwork. Actress Caron, a young (19) French ballet dancer discovered by Kelly, combines dancing skill with a fetching simplicity and the plump-cheeked freshness of a Renoir model. The script, by Alan Jay Lerner, bounces wittily along under the direction of Vincente Minnelli. The Gershwin score brims with a dozen of his works, some heard only in snatches, some unfamiliar, ranging from such standards as 'S Wonderful and Embraceable You to Piano Concerto in F, played by Gershwin's leading interpreter, Pianist Oscar Levant...
...some respects all Yalemen are Johnny Appleseeds at heart, dedicated to the proposition that one does not earn one's "Y in life" just for oneself alone. They might, be as different as RFC Director W. Stuart Symington and Columnist Max Lerner, both '23, or as bustling Senator William Benton of Connecticut and his lifelong friend, Robert Maynard Hutchins, both '21. But they are all apt to be men with a mission, whether it is holding high public office, running a local community chest or managing the Red Cross drive...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...