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Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
...carrying The Pajama Game into extra innings works out fairly agreeably on the whole. Compared to its bookform pokes at show business, Say, Darling is now using a softball. But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps and bounces along cheerfully enough...
Died. Herbert Fields, 60, who wrote the book for Broadway musicals ranging from Garrick Gaieties to Annie Get Your Gun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of Slapstick Comedian Lew Fields (Weber & Fields), Herbert was the first librettist with the Rodgers & Hart team, later did such hits as DuBarry Was a Lady and Mexican Hayride with Cole Porter, collaborated on many shows (Up in Central Park, the forthcoming Redhead) with his sister Dorothy...
...Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons a melting lullaby ("Sleep, my love") that leaves the audience wondering whether composer and librettist have swallowed their own commercial...
...addition to providing fine flashes of humor and plenty of surefire scenes. Librettist Menotti seems intent on making the point that as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed; waiting and hoping are the whole of life. Composer Barber, 47, had to do a good deal of waiting himself. Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period ("At one point," says Barber, "he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months"). Barber himself named the leading character after scanning a What-to-call-your-baby book entitled Name This Child...