Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of Mr. Dyer-Bennett's obvious skill in singing what one observer called the "la de da" ballads, he becomes, after steady listening, as entertaining as a ten-year-old Irish tenor singing "Danny Boy" for a local talent show. Dyer-Bennett's voice, unfortunately, lacks that twist of lemon peel which, for example, made Hank Williams something more than another hillbilly singer...
Dallas, Texas, State Fair Music Hall: Wish You Were Here, a poolside musical with Shirley Jones (through July 5); Friml's swashbuckling old The Vagabond King, with Burgess Meredith...
Santa Fe, N. Mex., Summer Theater: Dark of the Moon, the old (1945), haunting backwoods musical...
...closest 51-year-old William Nickerson gets to dirt these days is gardening at his spacious $75,000 estate at Alamo, Calif. After a quarter-century of pyramiding debts, he enjoys European travel, tennis, a dip in his swimming pool and telling his fellow-Americans how to make a million dollars the easy way. He makes it sound wonderfully plausible...
...also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp. A fight starts, and an impassioned maiden, fearful of not getting her share, gnaws him lustfully on the foot. "I guess that's the end of the war for old Johnny," says a buddy. But the future Senator has just begun to fight...