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Died. Jerry Ross (real name: Jerold Rosenberg), 29, composer-lyricist who with Richard Adler was Broadway's hottest new songwriting team (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees); of bronchiectasis, a lung ailment; in Manhattan. Since 1950 Ross and Adler, each contributing both words and music, have turned out more than 250 songs. Notable hits: Hernando's Hideaway; Whatever Lola Wants; Hey, There; Heart...
...Britishers have hungered for American musicals since their first taste of Oklahomal and Annie Get Your Gun. Last month the latest in a long string opened and the critics, at least, seem to have gotten their fill. The Pajama Game, awaited because the Queen Mother had singled it out in New York, collected pans and mild jeers. Most reviewers found it coarse, loud, and unfunny. They especially deplored the enthusiasm of the audience and the seven curtain calls...
Colgate Salsbury is wholly professional in the part of a red-pajama'd Irish salesman. His every grumble is funny. As a radical young poet, Woodruff Price seems to have a harder role. Perhaps this is because he plays it with less ease, though still effectively, as does Lee Jeffries in the role of the poet's lover, who sacrifices herself for him. An indignant landlord, John Ratte, sheds humor on the whole scene with his belligerent fist-shakings. Ann Adams and, again, Clare Scott, depict two sympathetic but gossipy old women in the boarding house where a detective, Bruce...
Hollywood likes to look at show business, but usually the result is a waste of film. Life in even a pajama factory is often more suited to drama. This time, however, Mankiewicz caught some unusually interesting show people in a really dramatic situation. He has put them in a picture which not only merits the honors it once earned, but also deserves to have lived for five years...
...Moira Shearer, Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet troupe made their first U.S. TV appearances with Sullivan (whose show was known as Toast of the Town until last month). Drama? Ed has given his viewers excerpts from more than 50 Broadway hits, including the smash successes Pajama Game, The Member of the Wedding, South Pacific and Don Juan in Hell. Movies? Sullivan's show pioneered in showing pre-release snatches of films (as in this week's Guys & Dolls, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, with music by Frank Loesser). Comedians...