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Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...have a play. All you need for a hit are your specific stars, your director and your angel. Tchin-Tchin, which opened at the Wilbur Saturday night, and which means "Hello-Goodbye" in Hong Kong, has all three; and Tchin-Tchin will be the season's first hit-hit. All very simple, indeed...
...butcher outside his shop in Spoleto, Italy, leans against an ancient Roman wall topped by an abstract angel of golden bronze. Women in rusty black shawls on their way to Mass at the Church of San Domenico step gingerly past a giant iron spider. Families sipping Campari in a sidewalk cafe ponder a guitar cut from steel and mounted on a flatcar. All over town, modern sculptures of bronze and steel and iron loom over fountains, peer from alleys (see color}. Now that the initial shock is wearing off, the Spoletani are getting used to and even beginning...
...money tree" decorated with dollars, Real Estate Tycoon Louis Robert Lurie, 73, presides over his many business interests. They span movies ("I made all the early Tarzan pictures") to mining ("My record is perfect-I've lost every cent I ever invested"). He is also a lucky angel, having bankrolled such Broadway hits as Song of Norway and Pajama Game. But he made his fortune-estimated at more than $50 million-in buildings. He has built 226 of them, owns two dozen large buildings from his home town, Chicago, to San Francisco. Last week, moved by San Francisco sentimentalism...
After hearing her performance in Bittersweet, one hopes for a recording of the operetta by Miss Elias. A new recording would be welcome, since the only available version (on Angel) is marred by mannerisms on the part of several of the performers and generally weak casting. In Beverly, however, the show itself is on display for the rest of the week. If one wants to see a truly professional singing actress transcend the limitations of plot and work through a fine score to achieve a memorable evening in the musical theatre, than he had better go to see Miss Elias...