Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway's top producer this season, 53-year-old Kermit (Look Homeward, Angel] Bloomgarden (TIME, April 21), had the good fortune to 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...
...father was a moderately successful lawyer who had the idea that Iowa was going to become a wasteland, made plans to move out of the state and raise nuts somewhere; but he stayed. Meredith's mother Rosalie, a Sunday-school superintendent for 40 years, nicknamed him "Glory" because he always had a smile on his face. Rosalie acted in amateur plays-a daring hobby at the time-and grew lilies of the valley on the north side of the house. She kept Lorna Doone and Tennyson within easy reach of the Willson children, and dressed curly-haired Meredith...
...situation might suggest the kind of triple schizophrenia recently popularized in The Three Faces of Eve; or in Burgess Meredith's controversial production of Hamlet, in which three persons depicted three facets of Hamlet's personality and spoke now successively, now simultaneously. But Laurents has gone a step further here. Virginia lives in the present. The three girl tormentors, however, are not facets of her personality but rather three historical stages of her life. Laurents has put them all on the same temporal plane--the present--so that the three can converse and interact with themselves, with Virginia, and with...
Home for a festive Iowa wingding was Composer Meredith (The Music Man) Willson, who jovially greeted some 20,000 of the Mason City homefolks, grabbed a baton and proudly led a 208-piece band (with, naturally, 76 trombones and no cornets) down the main street, later uncorked lus ire at rock 'n' roll: "It's a plague as far-reaching as any plague we've aver had. My preoccupation with this creeping paralysis is not with the lascivious quality, the suggestive dancing that goes with it. This is bad, and it's been condemned before...
...closed in on a gouger. Suspended for ten days was the city's No. 1 agency, the combined Tyson Operating Co. and Sullivan Theatre Ticket Service. Out of a job was $40-a-week Clerk Theresa Hale, who extracted $10 from Businessman Philip Stogel for four tickets to Meredith Willson's cornfest, The Music...