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Antennas & Thatch. Last week, while natives sang and guests drank a toast in kava (a paralyzing concoction of powdered pepper root and water), Idaho-born Governor H. Rex Lee dedicated an educational TV network that in two months of operation has transformed the islands. The net centers on a big (40,000 watts) transmitter, lifted to the top of 1,600-ft. Mt. Alava by a new, mile-long cable tramway that sways giddily over .Pago Pago Harbor...
...FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe classic is as big, bountiful and beautiful as ever, with Rex Harrison repeating his Shavian success opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is a passable flower girl and a Lady second to none...
...fair lady, but Columbia Records has no quota. There is a Fair Lady to swing to (by Andre Previn), another to sway to (by Sammy Kaye), one to weep by (Andy Williams), and one to sleep by (Percy Faith). There is also the new movie soundtrack, which has Rex Harrison in fine, fierce fettle. But Soprano Marni Nixon, dubbing in the voice of Eliza for Audrey Hepburn, sings with more finish than fire. Lovers of Broadway's fair lady, Julie Andrews, will insist on the original-cast recording, which has sold 5,000,000 copies...
...FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe musical classic is big, bountiful, and beautiful as ever, with Rex Harrison repeating his Shavian tour de force opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is a passable flower girl and a Lady second to none...
...FAIR LADY. Audrey Hepburn seems delightfully right as the cockney flower peddler transformed into a lady by Professor Rex Harrison, and the happy news is that this lush, eye-filling adaptation of the Lerner-Loewe musical delivers a round $17 million worth of elegant escapism...