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Richard, runs Arthur for a large group of stockholders, including Julie An drews, Leonard Bernstein, Mike Nichols and Rex Harrison. It is named not for the once and future king, but for Beatle George Harrison, who, when asked in A Hard Day's Night about his haircut, replied: "I call it Arthur." Sybil, it also turns out, is a sort of Guinevere of the frug. Not that there was any space to spare on opening night, for even a few of the stockholders couldn't writhe their...
...hits from the London musical Maggie May, English and American folk songs. One song that is not in his repertory, he confides to his Manhattan nightclub audience, is Oh, My Daddy Is an Engineer. "That," says Noel Harrison, 31, "would be ludicrous." Indeed it would. The only son of Rex Harrison and Marjorie Noel Thomas, Rex's first wife, Noel has a pleasant voice as well as a stylish way with a song-and when he got hugged by Friend Sybil Burton on opening night, he flashed a grin that was curiously evocative of his father...
...best-actress nominee for her Mary Poppins role. And there was Audrey Hepburn, the girl who got the movie part but no Oscar nomination. Audrey was there by Academy request to fill in for stroke-stricken Pat Neal and present the best-actor award. And there was Rex Harrison, a sure winner who had played with both Eliza Doolittles...
March on the Embassy. Rex's turn came first. He took the stage stairs two at a time, happily embraced his film co-star no fewer than five times, and then hit the evening's high note of graciousness: "Deep love to-eh-well, two fair ladies, I think." Next came the best-actress category, and Julie Andrews was onstage, taking her Oscar from 1964 Best Actor Sidney Poitier and beaming. "I know you Americans are famous for your hospitality," she glowed, "but this is ridiculous...
Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...