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...Unsaleable Molly Brown (book by Richard Morris; music and lyrics by Meredith Willson) recounts-and where need be, rearranges-the true-life story of the illiterate Irish gal (Tammy Grimes) from Hannibal, Mo. who went forth into the world with a stout heart and flying fists to kayo success. She married a miner (Harve Presnell) who doted on her and, when he struck it rich, hid $300,000 in a stove, where it was burned to a crisp. When he struck it richer, she carted him to Denver, got mauled trying to crash society, and carted him to Europe...
...Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light, fantastic tale of a Paris poule or tart (Sept. 29). Multitalented Meredith (The Music Man) Willson takes his second shot at Broadway with The Unsinkable Molly Brown-a story of the Titanic disaster and a survivor otherwise known as Tammy Grimes (Nov. 3). Tenderloin, adapted by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman from Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel about the saints and sinners of Manhattan...
...Washington Allston's classical scenes, Charles Willson Peale's portraits, Albert Bierstadt's seascapes and John F. Peto's trompe-l'æil, each of the gallery's rooms is furnished with authentic Early American chests, tables and secretaries. Guarding the gallery's main entrance is the 10 ft. pine statue of Justice, which stood atop the courthouse in Barnstable, Mass, and was lent by Shelburne to the Brussels World's Fair...
...many art buffs recall Charles Willson Peale's oil painting, Exhuming the F irst American Mastodon (1806-08), nor do many readers know Royall Tyler's novel. The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Updike Underhill (1797). Much American music of that period is equally obscure, but equally evocative in its titles and equally appealing to the imagination if given half a chance. Manhattan's Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage is providing that chance in a series of 20 recordings, giving voice to some 25 little-known U.S. composers...
...college on "Contributions of Calvinism to American Democracy." The combination is engaging and makes sense; Only in America, Golden's book of clippings from the Israelite, sold 270,000 hard-cover copies, is still going strong, and is being fashioned into a musical by Meredith (The Music Man) Willson...