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...thing that all of NBC's musical spectaculars have in common is tiny (5 ft. 6 in.) Max Liebman. A showman of 25 years' experience, Liebman has been so successful as producer, director and general mastermind of the specs that last week NBC signed him to a new five-year contract...
...early post-war years, Heller and a friend of his, Richard D. Campbell, Jr.'48, had pushed the idea of an American seminar in Europe. When the widow of the famed German producer, Max Rinehart, offered to donate Leopoldskron to them, they were able to enlist the support of such influential figures as ex-President Conant, and received the sponsorship of the Student Council and the International Student Service. But funds were still difficult to raise. Heller and the other Americans sweated out the first session in the summer of 1947. The war in Europe had ended only two years...
Divorced. Margaret Leighton, 32, British actress of stage (The Confidential Clerk) and screen (The Holly and the Ivy); by Max Reinhardt, 39, publisher (Nonesuch Press) ; on grounds of adultery with Actor Laurence Harvey, 26, the Romeo of the current film version of Romeo and Juliet; after seven years of marriage, no children; in London...
...spot in the TV ratings was proving easier to get than to hold onto. This week, for the first time, the lead position was captured by one of NBC's high-priced spectaculars: Max Liebman's Babes in Toyland, which went to the top with a Nielsen rating of 50.5. CBS's I Love Lucy grabbed second with 50.1. while Jackie Gleason (CBS), the former leader, dropped to third with 48.1. The rest of the Top Ten: 4) Toast of the Town (CBS). 45.5; 5) Dragnet (NBC). 44.1; 6) Disneyland (ABC). 42.4; 7) Milton Berle...
...others: New Orleans' Nathan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix (1909-1910). Schippers is the youngest conductor at the Met since Walter Damrosch, who was signed...