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Beyond being Hammerstein's biggest plum, Oklahoma! may have started his greatest partnership. He and Composer Rodgers have a second smash in Carousel; as Broadway producers, they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...
...Other votes: two for Harvey; one each for A Bell for Adano and / Remember Mama. One critic voted that no award be made...
...Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge, whose search for faith ended in Vedanta, is said to be modeled on Isherwood...
...Show Association found themselves confronted with an unthinkable situation. . . . The idea of a girl from the Bronx, whose father accepted wagers on horse races, winning their annual award shocked them down to the very roots of their well-bred bunions. ... A last-hour disqualification, based on the charge that [Mama] Lisanti had insulted one of the judges, sidetracked [Lois] in favor of Miss Dorothy Ritterbush . . . whose father is wealthy and entertains lavishly at his Jersey estate...
...suppose anyone else but a Lisanti would have taken the rebuke lying down and quit competition. . . . This [year] Mama Lisanti didn't tell a single judge what she thought of him, although, Heavings knows, some of the upstarts need to be told off occasionally. . . . This time, there was nothing that could be done about it. The medal was Lois's on a platinum platter. . . . Mama Lisanti was present yesterday to see Lois receive tardy recognition for her superb horsemanship...