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...night they ran A Star Is Born on the late show, Liza Minnelli, 21, found her own rainbow. Poised, but grinning gleefully, she stood before a packed ballroom at Manhattan's Hotel Astor to accept the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the season's best musical actress for her Broadway debut in Flora, the Red Menace, a tepid comedy she heats up with a dramatic voice that brings memories of Garland yet is still her own. Her mother Judy couldn't attend; she was at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center...
Though filled with plot-happy cartoon Commies, Flora is strangely plotless. A stammeringly angry young Red (Bob Dishy) sweet-and-sour-talks a guileless fashion illustrator (Liza Minnelli) into carrying a card. When she surprises him with a half-undressed, wholly unabashed, free-love enterpriser (Cathryn Damon) and discovers that the chip on his shoulder is his head, she rips up both card...
...down on rather than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland, she produces the Big Sound spontaneously, though she phrases her songs with a dramatic intensity more...
...extends through 250 stores in 42 states, has an outlet in London. "It sounds awful," confesses President Laurence Eiseman, "but we sell only to the top stores." Kennedys under twelve own Florence Eiseman clothes. So do Prince Albert and Princess Caroline of Monaco, Elizabeth, Taylor's daughter Liza and well-dressed scores of others whose parents like that unfrilled look. Last week, in Manhattan to display the new spring and "cruise wear" fashions, Florence Eiseman explained why. "I believe," she said, busy knitting something white and inscrutable, "that all children are beautiful. Their skin, their eyes, their legs...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A program devoted to young artists, including Singers Liza Minelli and Jack Jones, Pianist Susan Starr, Folk Singers Ian and Sylvia, and Dancer Violette Verdy, with Jane Wyman as hostess. Color...