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...Colonial has opened with a David Merrick tryout, The Penny Wars, written by Elliott Baker and directed by a beautiful actress-comedian named Barbara Harris. Two fine actors, George Voskovec and Kim Hunter, head the cast-but the Boston notices and rampant trade gossip indicate the show is in serious pre-Broadway trouble...
...Vineyard, "nearly drowning once again in the effort." Finally, he said, he collapsed in his hotel room, going out only once before morning to talk to a man he identified as a clerk. Russell E. Peachey, actually a co-owner of the Shiretown Inn, later told TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick that he did indeed see Kennedy at 2:25 a.m., dressed in a suit coat and trousers that appeared dry. Kennedy complained that party noise from an adjacent building was keeping him awake, and inquired what the time was. To Peachey, Kennedy did not seem to be acting or talking...
When Hillenbrand left, Correspondent Frank Merrick (Princeton '64) took over the job. A veteran of the demonstrations at Brandeis three months earlier, Merrick expected a quieter morning of argument among the more moderate students. He was considerably surprised. "Those Harvard men were damned angry," he says. "After three hours they were still furious about what they considered a betrayal by President Pusey and the deans...
Drama Ghetto. The harder he worked, the heavier he grew-and the bigger target he made. "If I decide to stay around Broadway beyond the current season," griped Producer David Merrick, "it will be for the pleasure of throwing his fat limey posterior out in the street." Fellow Critic John Simon fulminated in New York Magazine: "The APA production of The Misanthrope is as bad as . . . as . . . it is hard to find an adequately monstrous simile. As bad-let me try-as its review by Clive Barnes." Dance and Music Critic B. H. Haggin briskly summed up Barnes' critical...
Joel Grey, Jerry Orbach and Jane Mor gan are a few of the stars from hit shows on "Broadway's Best . . . 1969" with Host David Merrick...