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...live performances, which form the core of the theater's new format, represent a return to the Music Hall's earliest days. Those who attended the opening night on Dec. 27, 1932, saw 17 acts, including Ray Bolger, Martha Graham and the Flying Wallendas. But Depression-era audiences were eager for the escapism that Hollywood films provided, and the house soon became famous for world movie premieres...
...HEART OF the show, as everyone knows, is the glorious era of RKO and MGM musicals. Ray Bolger does the boasting for all the luminaries present: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Eleanor Powell, Donald O'Connor, Judy Garland. Among the MGM treats is Gene Kelly's original dance with Carol Haney, whose figure was later replaced by a cartoon figure for the animated classic Invitation to Dance. Kelly dances with garbage-can lids on his feet in It's Always Fair Weather and Donald O'Connor helps him make a shambles of a linguist's office...
...unusual highlight is a Ray Bolger dance which editors cut from The Wizara of Oz. Just before Dorothy and the Scarecrow hit the Yellow Brick Road, Bolger performs a comic dance in which he flies through the air and, with the help of reverse photography, catapults off rubber fences up and down the lane. Although, in retrospect, Gene Kelly wonders at its exclusion, this bizarre dance clearly clashes with the conventional dancing in the rest of the show...
...sought by the board, which wanted to raise the price of a first-class stamp to 23?. The board can try to live within the means suggested or seek to get the decision changed. Though the Postal Service has recorded surpluses for the past two years, Postmaster General William Bolger warned that an additional $3.2 billion in new revenues will be required to offset rising costs next year. One factor sure to influence the board's eventual decision is the outcome of an acrimonious dispute with postal unions, which have been working without contracts since July...
...Bolger, 61, who joined the post office in 1941 as a clerk, has spent his entire career with the system. He is expected to quit at year's end for a job in private industry. Along with the improved efficiency, Bolger's six years as Postmaster General have won more friends for the U.S. mail. A Roper poll last year showed that most Americans give the Postal Service higher marks than the telephone company, insurance firms or hospitals...