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Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Melvyn Douglas narrating; Victor, 3 sides). Koussevitzky speeds up Copland's rhythms and Melvyn Douglas reads his lines like a carnival barker. Not so effective as Conductor Artur Rodzinski's 1946 version with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which has Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer's dignified narration. Performance: fair...
...MELVYN S. PENSON
...Broadway these heavenly days, angels are everybody in general. Said Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...
Call Me Mister (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Melvyn Douglas & Herman Levin) is the most engaging new musical of the season. A bright, bouncing, youthful revue celebrating the G.I.'s return to civilian life, it is acted by quondam G.I.s, male & female, and USO entertainers who are just back themselves...
...Ladies. Three new freshmen coeds, all Democrats, will join the six women already in the House. Prettiest newcomer is Hollywood's Helen Gahagan Douglas, 43, wife of Screen Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated...