Word: musi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy of a small-town jamboree-an energy whose modern habitat may well be the musi-comedy stage...
Divorced. Judy Holliday (real name: Judith Tuvim), 37, bouncy blonde Oscar-winning cinemactress (Born Yesterday), currently wowing Broadway in the musi-comedy Bells Are Ringing; from Clarinetist David Oppenheim, 35; after nine years of marriage, 2½ of separation, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
After starring as a wanton in NBC's two-hour TV version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, peripatetic Musi-comedienne Mary Martin flew to Jamaica to rehearse with Noel Coward for CBS's Ford Star Jubilee to be telecast next month, meanwhile telling one and all of her projected winter trip with husband Richard Halliday to the remote state of Goias, in Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full...
...offering four summer Spectaculars. One, a nostalgic reminiscence of a prewar year, Remember-1938, was shown last week with Groucho Marx as host. Two of the three others promise to be good summer fare: the Broadway musi-comedy One Touch of Venus, and Svengali and the Blonde, a musical version of Trilby, starring Carol Channing...
...live and make money in Venezuela. In the countryside, boomers who have drifted in from such places as Greenland or Morocco run dredges, build railroads, drive piles (but in the oilfields the oldtime Texas roughnecks have largely been replaced by the Venezuelans they trained). In the cities the American musiús (Venezuelan slang for any foreigner, from monsieur) range from topflight oil-company executives and managers of U.S.-owned factories or assembly plants (cars, tires, chemicals, etc.) through a wide spectrum of salesmen, admen and promoters to some all-purpose operators that the others call "export bums...