Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JOHN PATRICK, 90, author of the Pulitzer-prizewinning hit play The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953) and numerous screenplays; in Delray Beach, Florida...
...actresses over 40, even the most talented, have trouble finding work, Broadway at the moment seems to set them at a premium. Back on New York stages this fall, their radiance intact, are Carol Channing, 74, in Hello, Dolly!, Julie Andrews, 60, in Victor/Victoria and Carol Burnett, 62, in Moon over Buffalo...
...Dolly and Victor are musicals; Moon is a farce. For those seeking weightier drama, we have a pair of more recent arrivals: Zoe Caldwell, 62, in Terrence McNally's Master Class and Uta Hagen, 76, in Nicholas Wright's Mrs. Klein. These two actresses have given their professional lives to the theater--which has in turn gratefully given them a total of five Tony Awards and the evident right to have the phrase "the legendary" prefixed to their names...
THOSE NYE COUNTY, NEVADA, "COWBOYS" must have gazed at the moon until they lost their senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management...
...MOST POPULAR PLAY IN NEW York this season might be called She Still Looks Terrific. It's getting tremendous word-of-mouth in theater lobbies all over town. You can hear it at the Martin Beck, where Carol Burnett (age 62) is shining in Moon Over Buffalo, and at the Lunt-Fontanne, where Carol Channing (74) takes charge of Hello, Dolly! Now, at the Marquis, Julie Andrews (60) is back on Broadway after a 32-year absence, starring in the movie-turned-stage musical Victor/Victoria...