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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories of the '205 but achieved some later notable successes. It was Theresa Helburn who sent the script of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs to Composer Richard Rodgers and suggested it might make a' good musical. Result: Oklahoma...
...dwarf" of this book first saw hard covers years ago in Shulman's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. A sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the monotony...
...daydream of every honest bookkeeper: snatch the company payroll, high-tail to Paris and set up light housekeeping with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot. In A Taste for Champagne, Hans Con-ried, Monique Van Vooren and Scott Mc Kay make the caper come off with style...
Thurs., Aug. 27 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). For steadfast summer viewers willing to suffer reruns, Nightmare at Ground Zero will make harrowing fare for a hot evening. Scientists at a 1954 A-bomb test are trapped by their own talents when the weather changes and an unexpected wind rains radioactive dust on their bunker...