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Most successful of the musicals right now is Guys and Dolis, the Damon Runyon tale starring Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene, at the 48th Street Theatre...
...accompanied by a Fred Astaire revue entitle Royal Wedding, with Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn. The Roxy, 50th and Seventh, proclaims Bird of Paradise its greatest Easter show; the South Sea island idyll involves Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, and Jeff Chandler. The Paramount offers Bob Hope in Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid, with Billy Eckstine on stage. Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward supply standard Western drama in Rawhide at the Rivoll, another Times Square house...
Hard-eyed men with brains like a cash register, the gangsters of 1951 are no kin to Damon Runyon's Harry the Horse. They have taken the business risk out of gambling by making it big. They look on their eager customers with the contempt of a sure-thing businessman for the fellow who throws around sucker money...
Unlike many producers who read scripts until they find one they like, Feuer & Martin conceived the idea for the Bolger show (a musical version of Charley's Aunt), built it from the ground up. Inspired by the late Damon Runyon's raffish fables, they did the same with Guys and Dolls. Except for Pat Rooney Sr., who last appeared in a Manhattan playhouse in 1918, none of the new show's principals has ever played in a Broadway musical before. But Guys and Dolls, three months old, will recoup its $177,000 investment before...
...Pain. Sugar Ray's hair was mussed, but he was feeling no pain. He stepped to the microphone and made a perky little speech consisting entirely of a plug for the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund (he had just been appointed an honorary member...