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Fiorello! (book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick). Despite an exclamation point that gives it the look of an Italian war cry, Fiorello! matches up with La Guardia, telling the story of New York City's Little Flower from the time he first ran for Congress until his second and successful bid for mayor. The irascibly humane fighting gamecock, whose career, as a matter of fact, has something of the air of a war cry, displays in the theater, as he did on the platform, a naturally theatrical personality...
...straight-shooting Weidman-Abbott book weaves deftly in and out of the song numbers, and the lower they descend for their theme, the higher they mount in effectiveness. The boys in the back room are amusingly kidded in a lilting Politics and Poker; graft is hilariously drubbed in a dittylike Little Tin Box. Even more zipful are a pair of production numbers, a rousing electioneering street dance, and a fine 1920s high-kicking chorus line...
Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these very fatherly types. He is aggressively normal-you can see the blink behind the eye even though the eye is open. He is very much the commuter, and really the perfect editor-for people who need an editor...
Died. Doris Humphrey, 63, Illinois-born, Denishawn-trained dancer, teacher and choreographer, who with Charles Weidman formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed...
...Enemy Camp, Weidman...