Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend opened with Comic Pianist Victor Borge, whose show was the familiar, funny and overlong romp. It closed with admirably durable Rosalind Russell once again going through the invigorating setting-up exercises of Wonderful Town. CBS gave it two hours, and the TV version of the Broadway musical turned out to be just as whackily brilliant as the original. When the camera zoomed in on Roz and Sister Eileen (Jacquelyn McKeever), huddled in their virginal Manhattan bed and wailing Why Did I Ever Leave Ohio?, the old Town never seemed more wonderful...
Among the real heroes of the weekend bender were half-a-hundred puppets, Poet Ogden Nash, Conductor Leonard Bernstein (also responsible for the Wonderful Town score) and Ludwig van Beethoven...
Last week, thanks to their Big Sisters, Smiths' children were persuaded to bundle into buses and ride off to the nearby town of High Wycombe. There the public hall was gaily decorated, pungent with the odor of cakes and candy, loud with a piano thumping out nursery rhymes and rock 'n' roll. Father Christmas himself arrived with a bag of toys. A year ago the regular Smiths staff might not have been able to get their patients into the hall at all. This year everybody-the shiny-eyed Big Sisters included-enjoyed a wonderful holiday party...
...taut Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, who founded it after World War II as a patriotic (and profitable) alternative to packing British subdebs off to Paris to learn the graces. Ever since, socialites have installed their daughters at Mrs. O'Mahony's small Queen's Gate town house, whose front hall contains a collection of white china swans "to remind the girls of what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish, Mrs. O'Mahony...
...Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra that accompanied Rosalind Russell and cast in a two-hour production of Wonderful Town (see SHOW BUSINESS). The determined gadabout: Broadway Composer-Conductor Lehman Engel, 48, one of the nation's busiest and most versatile men-about-music...