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Parties & Pants. Merely to be believed, the Savage requires a better-natured audience than a composer can expect to find in all Christendom. Attempting "smiling satire," Menotti has a Vassar girl (Roberta Peters) go to India in search of the Abominable Snowman. Her father (Morley Meredith) meets a maharajah and...
To fill Hilberry's shoes, Wayne alumni want a "magician" with a "strong stomach" and "free of neuroses." He must be both for and against unions, both Republican and Democrat, yet have "no political bias at all." In breathless order, the next Wayne president must be: "A pragmatic realist...
Despite the title, playwright Ronald Alexander has male the albatross, Nat Bentley, a talentless television writer-producer played by Robert Preston, the only lovable aspect of his play. Bentley is the same sort of appealing, good-natured fraud that Preston played in The Music Man. He cons other people into...
We've sometimes had occasion to laugh at some of the press some of the time-"in a perfectly good-natured way"-but to laugh at all the press of the United States, as the young Roosevelt urged, requires not so much courage as an incapacity for making distinctions...
But Alec's younger brother, Playwright William Douglas-Home, warns that his "apparent mildness, his good-natured absent-mindedness," even his grin, are deceptive. William also vows that under Home, unlike Macmillan, "there won't be any nepotism." Says he: "Sister Bridget won't be chairing the...