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...Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn...
Monocled British Actor Martyn Green, 60, who lost half his left leg in a Manhattan garage-elevator mishap (TIME, Nov. 16), hobbled on uncertain crutches from his hospital room, bumped smack into the embraces of Broadway friends on hand for his coming-out party. Especially famed as a Gilbert and Sullivan singer and dancer, Green was soon informed that the Actors' Fund will provide him with an artificial leg so that he may again "bring joy and laughter to the stage." Having recalled recently that Actress Sarah Bernhardt carried on her career for some years with an artificial...
...MARTYN BERRY Oxford, England
...prize is the first which will be awarded in a series of contests planned every four years for authors of outstanding books in the natural and social science fields. Funds for the prizes and for publication of the books were provided from the estate of Dr. Martyn Paine of New York City...
...Treasury of Ribaldry (Riverside) carries a long foreword by Editor Louis Untermeyer defending the record, and the book from which it is drawn, from a nonexistent attack by outraged moralists. Britain's Savoyard Martyn Green gives a chirruping reading of selected passages from Ovid's Art of Love, Boccaccio's Decameron, Benjamin Franklin's Advice on the Choice of a Mistress, as well as a clutch of risque limericks...