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...scenes and the delight of all producers. "Most designers are masters of a single color," notes Producer David Merrick. "So if the basic color of your show is red, you get so-and-so; if it's green, you get somebody else. You can get Smith for anything." He also proves himself happily at home in all genres and periods-from the romantic realism of his squalid bed-sitter in A Taste of Honey to the sculptural expressionism of his revolving turntable for Dylan. He is also uniquely fast (he splashed out 250 watercolor sketches for Hollywood...
...artists' commune to a bachelor pad of his own a few blocks away. It is a yellow brick Federal house, with a staff of three for the dishes and furnace. It also has 16 rooms and 16 fireplaces and, consequently, more Oliver Smith sets than even David Merrick could afford...
...Satchmo gave it a rasping rhythm and lowdown authority-qualities it never had in the original-and his single recording knocked the Beatles right off the top of the bestselling lists. Both Republicans and Democrats wanted to cash in on the song's popularity, but Dolly Producer David Merrick, a loyal Democrat, gave the tune exclusively to Johnson for Hello, Lyndon! and threatened to sue Barry Goldwater if he dared...
...Pocket. North Carolina Mutual had an uncertain beginning 65 years ago in the backroom of a Durham barbershop. Barber John Merrick, one of seven founders, got some useful advice from Tobacco Magnate Washington Duke (his family founded the American Tobacco Co.), who explained business practices while being shaved. But Duke's advice was of little help when the struggling company faced its first policyholder death: to cover the $10 payment due, the firm had only 290 cash on hand. Merrick and another backer dipped into their pockets for the difference, then shrewdly waved the widow's receipt around...
Broadway lags. Pickets last year paraded outside How to Succeed and Subways Are for Sleeping because there were no Negroes in either cast. Now David Merrick, who produced Subways, is putting token Negroes into his new productions, 110 in the Shade (one Negro in the chorus) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (three Negro bit parts). There were only 20 shows in all of Broadway and off Broadway last season in which parts were filled by Negroes when whites could have done the job. The number of Negroes in these so-called integrated roles has not significantly...