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...before her 19th birthday, she opened on Broadway in The Boy Friend, and overnight she was such a star that Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe thought they were simmering in luck when they got her to sign for My Fair Lady...
...Straus, wife of the president of Radio Station WMCA, is a dry-minded girl who decided a year and a half ago to "bring about a system to end all the chaos." With a volunteer staff of 25 (including socialites and civic leaders), one secretary (Columnist Max Lerner's daughter) and five telephones, Call for Action set up shop. Sparked by spot announcements over (naturally) WMCA assuring listeners that a phone call to the group would expedite a complaint, Call has handled complaints from nearly 15,000 natives suddenly afforded a sympathetic ear and, more important, the name...
Only two scheduled shows are not based on anybody's biography, novel, play, magazine piece, film or war. In I Had a Ball, Buddy Hackett will play a Freudian fortune teller on Coney Island. Clairvoyance looms large in the other original, the long-awaited Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane collaboration, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Barbara Harris, who was the sensation of Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . ., plays a girl with extrasensory perception...
...night that My Fair Lady opened, Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner waited nervously in the 21 Club for news of the critics' reactions. The telephone rang at last. Lerner listened silently for several minutes, then turned to Composer Fritz Loewe and said softly: "The iceman cometh...
Even theatergoing children are now sophisticated enough to understand Lerner's remark, which, in his case, was made only in jest. For non-theatergoing children, ice can be defined as Broadway's term for the great sums of money made by various theater employees through the scalping of tickets. Over the past winter and spring, following investigations by New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, the term has been all over the theatrical pages of newspapers, and the corruption growing out of Broadway abuses has finally been illuminated...