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CINDERELLA (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A remake of the Rodgers & Hammerstein 1957 TV musical starring Lesley Warren (who played the ingénue lead in Broadway's 110 in the Shade) as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the prince, Ginger Rogers as the queen, Walter Pidgeon as the king, Celeste Holm as the fairy godmother, and Jo Van Fleet as the stepmother. Color...
...estate of Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, probated five years after his death, was valued at $7,127,161.65, bequeathed mostly to his widow, Dorothy, and their three children. It included a portfolio of 43 stocks and bonds, ranging from 104 shares of IBM to 100 of Du Pont, and "interests in musical and literary properties," meaning copyrights to lyrics from Rose Marie (1924) to The Sound of Music (1959), estimated...
Tuesday, November 10 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda hosts a program devoted to the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II. Florence Henderson, John Raitt, Gretchen Wyler and Susan Watson are among the singers...
Thanks to Playwright Wallach's quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...
...Bridge of Green. Harlem became a place of brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks. Oscar Hammerstein built the Harlem Opera House: it now houses a bowling alley. William Waldorf Astor put up a $500,000 apartment house on Seventh Avenue. Commodore Vanderbilt showed off his trotters on Lenox Avenue. The rich flocked up to Harlem for the summer...