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...batter). He whiles away time by wandering through book shops and inquiring hopefully if they are sold out of The Long Season (total national sales: 10,000, enough to make the New York Herald Tribune's bestseller list). Then he scoops up armfuls of volumes ranging from Moss Hart to William James and strolls back to his hotel to forget about the problem of pitching to the likes of Willie Mays. "There's nothing like a book," he says, "to keep your mind from thinking...
...attempt to recreate the box-office wonder of My Fair Lady, T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King is being stage' tooled as Camelot. As with Fair Lady, Frederick Loewe is the composer, Alan Jay Lerner the book adapter and lyricist, Moss Hart the director, Julie Andrews one of the stars (Nov. 17). Irma la Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light, fantastic tale of a Paris...
...esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree it grows...
...Columnist-TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 57, who, having taped enough of his Sunday evening shows to last out the summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...
...Three Shrines. Nine U.S. festivals are tuning up or have already launched their programs. Of the plays done on college campuses last year, Shakespeare topped the list. Actor Arnold Moss, who won raves for his magical Prospero some seasons back, has completed a 7,000-mile barnstorming tour of eleven states with his Shakespeare Festival Players. No breath of Shakespeare stirs at the moment on Broadway, but off-Broadway's Phoenix Theater has just concluded an excellent revival of Henry IV, Parts I and II. John Gielgud's Ages of Man recording, patterned on his brilliant stage readings...