Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady & Barbershop Quartet. How could a show, blended with such fine old period pieces as a player piano, a sputtering mayor, a fat lady who dances, a plain-Jane librarian-even a redheaded lisping boy and a celluloid-dickeyed barbershop quartet-make the grade on coldhearted Broadway? Talent is only part of the answer. Many an able combination of stage talent has been hooted off the boards on opening night. In this case, there happened to be a just-right blending of first-rate talents...
Open Face & Big Frustration. Bloomgarden called in Director Da Costa and set to work casting the show. Barbara Cook (Plain and Fancy') had just the right sweet voice to play Marian; Comedian David Burns was a natural for the wacky mayor; an international championship barbershop quartet, the Buffalo Bills, was signed to harmonize the Sweet Adeline-style love songs that reminded Willson of Mason City days; a ten-year-old charmer named Eddie Hodges took on the role of Marian's shy little brother...
Last November, when Pastor Cannito applied for permission to build a new church (with donations from the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention), war broke out again in Sant'Angelo. Although Rome's Ministry of Public Works gave its approval and the Baptists started to build, the local mayor issued a firm no. Contrary to the standard plot rules of Italian church-state village dramas, Mayor Antonio Baldassarra was not a Communist, but a Christian Democrat who was outraged by the prospect of a Protestant church in Sant'Angelo in Villa...
Abusive Building. When the mayor refused a request from the builders for water, the Baptists dug their own well ("God helped us find water"). Finally the mayor leveled an ultimatum: Take the "abusive building" down or the cops will...
Dauphinot sold a new American & Foreign Power issue, took on the job of selling stock of other companies. He found that often the trick was to get the most prominent citizen in a village to buy. For example, when the mayor in one town bought, 17 others lined up to buy. Soon Dauphinot branched out more, became Brazil's most active stock underwriter, was doing business in New York, Colombia and Venezuela. All told, Deltec has sold stock to some 50,000 Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into...