Word: murray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Murray Anderson, 67, old-time theatrical producer-director of spectacles (34 Broadway musical comedies and revues, eleven pageants, four Billy Rose Aquacades, seven Ringling Brothers' circuses, countless movie-theater and nightclub stage shows), whose latest offering, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, is a current Broadway hit; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...yearn to run off to the Galapagos Islands and rest beneath the palms with the local Liat (native girl in South Pacific), but usually he just starts wearing California sport shirts and loafers. John R. Winter Jr., 40, of Detroit, was a different sort. He went to the Arthur Murray Studio on Livernois Avenue...
...instructress, one Ellen Keene, told him he showed real promise, and John vowed to win his Arthur Murray bronze medal. All he had to do, after all, was learn the 60 different steps used in the fox trot, swing, tango, waltz, samba, rumba and mambo. After his hundredth hour on the floor, John decided to buy four Arthur Murray life memberships - they only cost $7,650 apiece, and together they guaranteed him 4,000 hours of instruction and after that, eight hours of dancing a month for life. "It's like a kind of insurance," he explained. "Dancing...
...main weakness is in the middle weights, where Chick Roche at 137 and Mike Murray at 147 both lack experience. The four upper weights are the strongest area on the team...
Seated before a serving of calf's head in Manhattan's "21" restaurant, Hermione Gingold, old darling of the London comedy stage, who is now playing her first Broadway hit (John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...