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...worth of garden sculptures that he presented last year to Israel's Hebrew University. That idea fell through when the Israeli government decided that a museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument...
Died. Dan Moody, 72, Governor of Texas from 1927 to 1931 who at 33, as a reform-minded state attorney general, defeated Incumbent Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, a housewife like Lurleen Wallace merely fronting for her husband, impeached Governor James Ferguson, after which Moody served two terms cleaning up the mess in the Statehouse and starting construction of Texas' top-rated highway system, then retired to a highly successful law practice; of heart disease; in Austin...
Directors David Sloss (the music) and George Hamlin (the staging) have adopted this problem child and provided a musically competent, visually disastrous production unhappily married. The suburban couple (Richard Lee and Miriam Boyer) have adequate voices, but are sorely tried by Bernstein's libretto. Only Danny Kaye could enunciate some of the convoluted lines without dragging the tempos. Those scenes, which like Leete's locker-room soliloquy were more musical comedy than opera, were the most successful...
...drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame for all his misdeeds, though maternal love appears to be her only failing...
When he returned to the concert stage 18 years later, Alkan inexplicably refused to play any of his important works. So did his illegitimate son, Elie Miriam Delaborde, himself a distinguished pianist, who inherited his father's idiosyncrasies: he roomed with two apes and traveled with 121 cockatoos...