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Died. Lee ("Mister Lee") Shubert, 78, president of Shubert Theater Corp., iron-fisted producer-landlord of the U.S. legitimate stage; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. With his brothers, Jacob ("J.J.") and Sam, Lee Shubert descended on Broadway from Syracuse, N.Y. in 1900, by the end of the booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until...
...Teahouse of the August Moon (adapted by John Patrick from the novel by Vern Sneider) has roughly the same locale as Mister Roberts and South Pacific and should have roughly the same success. The play has all the virtues of a big popular hit and not too many of the usual drawbacks. In treating of an occupation officer's experiences in an Okinawa village, Playwright Patrick has chosen a warm comedy level and stuck to it. Perhaps more crucially, Playwright Patrick, helped by able Director Robert Lewis and Scene Designer Peter Larkin, has created throughout an artificial, fairy-tale...
...suitcases in the room. It was filled with money. The policeman took Hall to the station, where Shoulders opened the second suitcase. When he saw the currency in it, he thought: "This has got to be the payoff on the Greenlease boy." He turned to Hall and said: "Now, mister, you're hooked. We know all about you." Replied Hall: "I know. I knew when you put that gun in my belly it was all up with...
WEST GERMANYs Parliament, goaded by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, is the only European legislature that has passed EDC through both houses. But is German rearmament constitutional? The German Federal Court will not decide until after the German elections on Sept. 6, and if it obeys Mister Dooley's law, the judges will follow the election returns. Adenauer's Socialist opponents are pledged to ditch EDC in favor of "German unity"-although they have not explained how they will achieve unity...
...spotlight his name is Mister Mistin, Jr., and he is a little boy of five-going-on-six. As the star of the circus he is the envy of all who ever gummed spun sugar. His blond hair is long and in curls, and his Lord Fauntleroy suit shows no wrinkles. But who would dare call the confidante of lion tamers a sissy...