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Died. John Shubert, 53, dour, second-generation head of a backstage family that owned and ran the nation's biggest chain of legitimate theaters (17 of the 33 on Broadway, others in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati); of a heart attack; aboard a train bound for Florida. True to Shubert's instructions, his funeral took place on the stage of the Majestic Theater, with his widow seated by the casket, and some 1,200 mourners and business associates in the orchestra and balconies. No clergy officiated at the rites held, as the theater owner requested...
...MUSICALS: The hero of Mr. President, by Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse, is a U.S. Chief Executive in his second term and after retirement. Speculations are running up and down Shubert Alley about who the real life model must be. The answer to that is all of them-the recent ones anyway-a sort of Harry Fitzgerald Troovenhower, as played by Robert Ryan (Oct. 20). Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner have a date (March 14) but no title for their first collaborative musical, about which they are keeping mum. Rick Be-soyan, who wrote Off Broadway...
...Ritz roof garden as part of an act called "Boston's American Beauties." Her theatrical ambitions were doubtless enhanced by her heavy beau of that time, Movie Actor Victor Mature, who was stationed in Boston in the Coast Guard. In 1944, when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th Century-Fox signed her for a seven-year contract. Ceezee did not bowl over Hollywood. After nine...
...U.S.A. is blossoming on Broadway, Scott & Co. have certain barriers to clear. The Theater of Michigan is gambling its future on two productions this season. The first is General Seeger, a new play by Ira (No Time lor Sergeants) Levin, which opened last week at Detroit's Shubert Theater to cheers from noisily partisan audiences. Directed by Scott, it stars William Bendix as a U.S. Army major general who discovers that the supposedly gallant death of his soldier son was actually a suicide faked as heroism by Army flacks. General Seeger will undergo the ordeal by fire when...
This one-cylinder Barnum, this tower of sneers in tasseled shoes, this Shubert Alley Catiline, this mustachioed thane of the sceptered aisle, this Greek god, this other Edam, this papier-mãché genius, this blessed plotter, this doozer producer, this publicity addict who would send his cocker spaniel to Cape Canaveral if he thought it would get into space, this man, this David Merrick has done it again...