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...dress, and so the First Lady was still in her robe as she received "Cannon" for coffee. Ex-Beatle George Harrison, invited for lunch by the Fords' son Jack, 22, says of the new atmosphere: "I feel good vibes about this White House." As he and Billy Preston toured the place, Billy sat down at the eagle-pedestaled piano in the East Room and struck up God Bless America, while Harrison hummed along...
...search committee composed of Richard M. Hunt, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Don K. Price, chairman of the Kennedy School of Government, and the Rev. Preston N. Williams, acting dean of the Divinity School, named Gomes minister in Memorial Church as well as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...static narrative line relies on flashbacks, a fictional device poorly suited to theater. Mack (Robert Preston), rendered obsolete by talkies, reminisces about his slapdash improvisatory triumphs and his turbulent on-again, off-again romance with Mabel (Bernadette Peters). After one prolonged absence, Mabel returns to be greeted with a rousing song sequence called When Mabel Comes into the Room. Jerry Herman and Gower Champion have all but plagiarized their own big Hello Dolly number...
...Robert Preston is an explosive Mack and Bernadette Peters a spunky Mabel, but they do not seem to take any real pleasure in each other, which goes for everyone else IN the show as well. Somehow, it's all a case of "Give my regrets to Broadway." "T.E.K...
There does seem to be some disagreement, however, over whether the complaint has anything to do with Schroder's union organizing activities. Mullins and Preston insist it does not, and Preston said his complaint "predates her affiliation with the union," which began last spring...