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Savage and Sophomoric. No one knows exactly how Henry Morgan got that way. "I was born at an early age," says he, "of mixed parents-male & female." That was 31 years ago. Some time after becoming a radio page boy, he changed his name from Henry Lerner von Ost to Morgan ("I borrowed it from a dance-hall bouncer"). Before he joined the Army Air Forces in 1943, his nightly jabberwocky, sometimes savage, sometimes sophomoric, had drawn millions of New York fans, including Fred Allen and Norman Corwin. (Says Corwin: "He is a great, great artist-better than he knows...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain examined by a strange trio of writers: Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend); Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and PM's Max Lerner...
...before Spring (music by Frederick Loewe; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by John C. Wilson) juts up above the messy season's other musical exhibits, but is still slightly below see level. It is tasteful and tuneful, has some pleasant performers, an agreeable look. Even so, it is too much like a rubber ball that is new, pretty, smooth-and just won't bounce...
...remember it now. I meant to read it at the time, but somehow I always found myself reading Harold J. Laski instead. I think it was unfavorably reviewed in the New Republic, and Max Lerner did not like it. It called him a prisoner of the left. Now that that permanent layer of atmospheric dust obscures the sun, I don't suppose I shall ever be able to see to read it. Of course," she coaxed, "I don't want to seem to dictate what you should or should not do, but tell mother what...
Using a "Harrison University" reunion as a setting, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loew have taken the eternal triangle, given it a new twist, added several fantasies, a hatful of songs and dances, and turned out a sparkling musical...