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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...
...more attractive at three score and 13 than most men are at 37, and his voice will doubtless retain its music when he is 103. But he is perhaps 20 years older than Higgins, the most irascible misogynist since Jack the Ripper, ought to be. Neither Shaw nor Lerner ever indicated that the professor and the flower girl would wind up in a clinch, but the possibility, which gave the story much of its electricity, was always there. That charge is what is lacking from the new production. Harrison's Higgins is urbane and amusing, a rare companion despite...
...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...