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Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis' vintage comedy, The Old Soak...
When Nominal Democrat Samuel Yorty was sworn in as Los Angeles' mayor, the august inaugural was presided over by no less a statesman than Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce...
...Great Neck, L.I.; then he would set the phone on his piano and bang away at the keyboard while the greatest American operetta grew along the wires, as Oscar picked out the pure Kern from the blip-blap-bleep of the Bell System, and made preliminary notes for such Showboat masterpieces...
Surovy steered Rise into Carmen, her most famous Met role, and over her objections that she wanted to sing Bach and Gluck, he also got her to sing Carmen Jones, Showboat and other light fare. Result : while her operatic career has declined (she is now 47, he is 50), Stevens is still in demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University...
...production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...