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...abscessed tooth put Liz in the hospital. While she recuperated last week in California, her bright-eyed three-year-old daughter Liza Todd remained behind in London to keep up the side, dressed herself in Ptolemaic Merry Mites as if to prove that she might at least have played Cleopatra as a tot. Meanwhile with shooting at a dead stop, Lloyd's was faced with what will be the largest claim -at least $2,800,000-ever made against the insurers of a motion picture...
...Bert Parks and his shy sweetheart. The baton in the orchestra pit below is not wielded by the usual bald male conductor, but by a very pretty young lady who might have just defected from the chorus onstage. With striking Titian-red hair, plus face and figure to match, Liza Redfield has the looks for anything except what she is: Broadway's first fulltime woman conductor...
...Liza's feminine victory sets quite a precedent for U.S. musical theater. Women of the class and quality of France's austere Nadia Boulanger have guest-conducted the Boston Symphony and other orchestras; in a less memorable tradition there have always been all-girl dance bands. But conducting Broadway musicals has always been a man's job. Producers argue that women cannot command a male theater orchestra in day-in, day-out performances. Besides, if the girl conductor is good-looking, who wants to watch the show? Liza Redfield finally broke the monopoly by insisting that "music...
Daughter of a Philadelphia textile worker, Liza started out as a piano prodigy, had her first public concert at the age of eight. One day five years ago, some friends asked her to play at a recording session for a short-lived musical called The Amazing Adele. ''There was a 14-piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags...
Here again are Durrell's ravening women: handsome, black-browed Justine, a nymphomaniac with a neurotic need of intrigue; large-eyed, blonde Clea, who, when stripped, looks as "naked and slender as an Easter lily"; and blind Liza, still dotty with love for her suicide brother Pursewarden. Here, too, are his strangely ineffectual men: Nessim, the Coptic millionaire, in trouble both with his wife Justine and the British government; Dr. Balthazar, the homosexual cabalist; Mountolive, the stiff-necked British ambassador; and Darley, the Irish schoolteacher, who tries to put together the carnal jigsaw puzzle of his friends...