Word: willson
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Friday, August 16 International Beauty Spectacular (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 45 contestants for the title of Miss International Beauty are backed up by a corps de ballet and original music by Meredith Willson. Live from Long Beach, Calif...
...were stars getting by on memories of better days. Mixed in, however, are always a few yowling infants getting scrubbed up for possible Broadway de buts. Last week audiences got their first look at two of the most promising of the summer's candidates: in Detroit Mere dith Willson's lavish new musical Here's Love, and in Boston, Jennie, a musical with the indomitable Mary Martin...
Starring Janis Paige, Craig Stevens and Laurence Naismith, Here's Love is based on the film Miracle on 34th Street. Like Willson's The Music Man, it is a loud and frequently frenzied melding of sentiment and humor, more effective in its large production numbers than in any individual song. The plot involves a kindly Macy's Santa Claus who loves kids and gets so identified with his part that he sends them to Gimbels if Macy's doesn't have it. The Detroit Free Press's Louis Cook found it "joyful...
While William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, talked engagingly about the evolution of stars and the significance of "E equals MC squared bit worked out by Einstein," the visitors sweltered in the near-astronomical temperature that prevailed in the lecture room...
...kids, and you're the perfect one. Sing something." Well, that's just how it happened to Sheri Bond, 7, a brunette, button-eyed tyke. She was at a special screening of a movie in Manhattan with her dancer mother when an assistant director of Meredith Willson's upcoming Here's Love, the stage version of Miracle on 34th Street, spotted her and knew she was just the one. Of course, she didn't know any songs; so they taught her Red, Red Robin, and now she's got a big part...