Word: lapham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also, in this New World, up popped a fairy godmother, a divorcee named Ruth Lapham Lloyd, who was heiress to a Texas oil fortune. To provide the lord with a proper setting for the wedding, she turned over her somewhat unkempt Elizabethan garden and 300-acre New Canaan, Conn., estate and manor house known as Waverny. Then, so that the lord should be untroubled at his nuptials, only eight guests were invited, including one local photographer, and the details were leaked only to the nation's leading tabloid society reporter...
Died. Roger D. Lapham, 82, businessman-politician who in the 1930s, as president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship line, won the grudging respect of Harry Bridges' West Coast dockers for his tough, fair-minded negotiations, a quality that helped him as mayor of San Francisco (1944-48), where he successfully cleaned out entrenched machine politics, but failed to secure for the city the permanent location of the U.N.; after a fall; in San Francisco...
...most of the lines are adequate transitions between the songs and dances. And besides, the two shysters, Hammond Deggs (Dean Stolber) and Hammond Swiss (James McBaine), can pawn anything off-even on the audience. Along with the mammoth Dean Unciate (Harry Q. Lapham), these two infuse the show with a relaxed lightness and gaiety which infiltrates almost the whole cast. Their duets are simply fine pieces of stage business...
...Lewis A. Lapham, chairman of executive committee, Bankers Trust...
...major kudos go, however, to Mr. Lapham and Director Tihmar. Lapham's resourceful acting and acceptable singing compensate for a good deal of mediocrity and make all his songs successful. The other principals, Mr. Bright and Mr. Littlefield, have their moments, but not consistently enough...