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...Havens' performance Thursday night and it served to salvage what began as a complete disaster. Havens is an artist of great power and he brought the audience to its feet with "Run, Shaker Life," a spiritual which rocked the tired and irritated thousands. Havens was also to introduce Jerry Merrick, the author of "Follow," a song which he had made known; and Jerry played with rare simplicity and delicacy...
...This strike could last five years," growled Broadway Impresario David Merrick. 55, "and there'll be nothing left of the theater when it's over." By the second night of a strike by the Actors' Equity, Broadway was dark, and all 19 of its shows were closed. At that point, Mayor John Lindsay, an avid theater buff himself, made an entrance in answer to a union appeal, and hosted all-night negotiations at his Gracie Mansion residence. Finally, the surprise ending: settlement of the strike (terms: weekly wage increases of $15-$25, protection of U.S. actors against...
...Skinner and Hermione Gingold - all of whom have variously contributed to Girl Talk's success as the brightest female panel discussion in television. Last week, at the urging of her ABC packagers ("They thought the show needed a little goosing-up"), Virginia introduced her first male panelist, David Merrick. The show bombed (Merrick was positively fatuous), and at its close, Virginia asked for a mail-in referendum on further gentlemen callers...
...Office Clout. Newman's official title at NBC is "critic at large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...
...Dolly! was maybe to make the movie. But until 1971, the cameras can't roll while the Broadway show runs-a conflict that has been prolonged past all reason by the ingenuity of Producer David Merriclc, 55. When Dolly! seemed about to expire three months ago, for example, Merrick restaged and revitalized the show with Pearl Bailey and an all-black cast, leaving Fox with $2,000,000 worth of sets, Barbra Streisand on hand, and no place to go. Fox is now seeking a legal gambit to foreclose on Dolly!, but Merrick is unflapped. "After Pearl...