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Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...
Died. Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, producer of such Broadway hits as The Music Man, The Diary of Anne Frank and Look Homeward, Angel; while suffering from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made...
...great television quiz-show scandal ended quietly last week. Pending for 15 months, the arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...
...Road is booming. The latest, most extravagant evidence is Detroit's 2,008-seat Fisher Theater, which opened last week with a pre-Broadway production of Kermit Bloomgarden's The Gay Life. Significantly, the space it occupies contained until recently a movie theater...
...feminine. You don't have to be one of the boys to be a good conductor." For four years, she rapped steadily at Broadway's door until Music Man's Co-Producers Herb Greene, who also doubled as the show's original conductor, and Kermit Bloomgarden gave...