Word: mame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form a team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions of moviegoers for years as the handsome, thick-browed heavy of B pictures who rarely got the girl...
...Mamie for the final 40 minutes. Recognized by few in the audience, Ike and the First Lady left just before the final curtain, were outside being cheered by a crowd when Stage Manager Biff Liff came on stage and wrongly announced their presence inside. Next afternoon, Mamie saw Auntie Mame, dropped backstage at intermission to greet her old friend Rosalind Russell for tea, cookies and "girl talk...
...reader to get a look at him, the book becomes a series of faces and scenery flashing by along the road. As a tour through modern America's bohemia, the book is amusing and entertaining. There are plenty of weird characters to titillate you a la Auntie Mame. But like any sight-seeing excursion, it is also very tiring. Even Kerouac seems to tire of spending a paragraph or two on people who sit around shooting benzedrine tubes at each other with an air gun. Toward the end of the book he contents himself with describing one party by listing...
...Mame days he kept busy patching up other people's novels, ghostwriting and being promotion manager for Foreign Affairs. Seen on a midtown Manhattan street, tall, lean, blue-eyed Tanner decked in a midnight-blue Homburg, with umbrella tightly furled, could still pass for a refugee from the British Foreign Office. Though Pat's grey-flecked brown beard predates Commander "Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their...
...talent is as an entertainer, and he has the fragility of his frivolity. Perhaps he could best be ticketed as an American P. G. Wodehouse. His Mame-brained characters with their vestigial memories of wealth and lineage are certainly kin to those of the great master of total piffle. Tanner's trade is boom-escapism; the preferred temperature for hatching one of his books is a Dow-Jones average of 500 or better. Satisfied holders of Auntie Mame can look forward to a fat stock dividend, which Tanner expects to declare on next spring's publishing list. Auntie...