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Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
...midtown Manhattan apartment, Arranger Hershey Kay and Pop Composer Jerry Herman were hard at work on a musical comedy. Milk and Honey, which will open on Broadway next month. Herman rippled a tune on the piano. "That's for Ruth's [Mimi Benzell] first meeting with Philip [Robert Weede]," he said. "Bright, but a little wistful." Kay thought a moment, concluded that the melody called for woodwinds...
...Mimi, effectively played by the star Elaine Stritch, is surrounded by a bevy of brats. She's the social director, also in charge of civilizing the passenger's children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
Hillside, Ill., Melody Top Theater: Anything Goes, with Phil Ford and Mimi Mines...
...lobby behind a red-coated jazz band. They packed hotel dining rooms in the early evening and took their trade to Collins Avenue strip joints as the night sluiced tin. They crowded into the Miami Beach exhibition hall for a $25,000 one-night Teamster spectacular, featuring George Gobel, Mimi Benzell and ten chorus girls. They had a wonderful time. And they were...