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...CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (RCA Victor). Sometimes listening to the album made from a musical is better than sitting through the show-but not this time. Alan Jay Lerner (who wrote the lyrics for the unforgettable My Fair Lady) and Burton Lane (who composed Finian's Rainbow's fine music) miss the Viennese schmaltz of a Hammerstein or a Loewe that would give these songs warmth. Even the soft-sharp voice of Barbara Harris cannot make up for the lack of feeling...
...against a golden carpet of rare coins from the collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum. Reaching back to 1795, the six featured coins had original values ranging from $10 to $50, and today are worth from $500 to $6,000. Photographs of the vintage coins by Frank Lerner and pictures of the highly valued young men by Phil Bath, Ormond Gigli, J. Alex Langley and Ben Martin were melded into the cover design by Charles P. Jackson...
...purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara $30,000 to stay available for the 31 years (and two collaborators) it took him to write Clear Day. With the box office now running at $88,000 a week and the theater selling tickets through June, Lerner has already made back every bright penny...
...sampling: Max Lerner, Senator William Dodd, Senator Hugh Scott, Roger Hillsman, Representative Emanual Celler...
...sampling: Max Lerner, Senator William Dodd, Senator Hugh Scott, Roger Hillsman, Representative Emanuel Celler...