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...continued to work on larger shows, however. Curiously, he first met librettist-lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II at the funeral of operetta-composer Victor Herbert in 1924, and they decided to work together. Their collaboration yielded Sunny the following year, and, most notably, Show Boat, which will have its 50th birthday next December...
...Fogg Museum isn't sitting back and taking its 50th anniversary presents gratefully--it's going out and looking for them. It began a $15.7 million fund drive this year for renovation and expansion...
Flowers, champagne and music graced the Fogg Saturday night as the museum celebrated its 50th year in its present building with a lavish ball. The party, attended by over 600 people, not only feted the Fogg's past but advanced the teaching museum's future; it is a key element in a $15 million fundraising campaign presently underway at the Fogg...
...been jocularly rumored in Britain that David Paradine Frost, now 38, aims to be Prime Minister by his 50th birthday. "Not so," swears Producer-Director Ned Sherrin, who gave Frost his first big job on TV. "David would quite like to be Prime Minister. And the Queen. And the Archbishop of Canterbury. But being only one would limit him a bit." Indeed. It might even be argued that if all three offices could be made into one, with David as all-purpose Augustus, Britannia would in short order rule the air waves and carve out a whole new empire based...
...50th birthday present to himself and "to give something back to my music," Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is giving a dozen free concerts round the world. But not at home in the U.S.S.R., which he left in 1974 on a two-year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint...