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This week's cover story is a good opportunity to introduce our theater man, who last fall replaced Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S distinguished first-nighter for 23 years. Kalem, 42, spent the preceding eleven years as a book reviewer for us, and will be remembered for his cover stories on Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak and James Gould Cozzens, as well as a memorable piece on Bertolt Brecht...
...already sold out the 72 boxes, which seat ten people, at $10,000 a box," cried Pee-tah Lawford. "This will be the biggest take in show-business history for a one-nighter." Added Frankie: "We expect to raise $1,700,000 for the one night. There's never been anything like it." That's for sure...
...much material worthy of the legend is already there, and L. & L. can tell themselves that their show is in no more trouble than many shows in tryout. One prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard...
Among the vigorous admires of the exhibit were Elliott Perkins '23, Henry Steele Commanger, Jr. '54, Marshall Cohen, and Kenneth S. Lynn '48, "This seems to be," observed one first nighter of the crowd around him as he drained his glass, "Harvard's cultural Four Hundred...
Garden of Eden. Last week the most grandiose plan of them all, Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Opera and Civic Auditorium, was unveiled. It is a fantasia right out of the Arabian Nights, and Wright, 88, a self-confessed Arabian Nighter since boyhood, meant it to be that way. "If we are able to understand and interpret our ancestors," Wright intoned, "there is no need to copy them. Nor need Baghdad adopt the materialistic structures called 'modern' now barging in from the West upon the East...