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...Hasty Pudding's 106th production, is not going to need very much advertising of its own to pack the Pudding Playhouse from now until it goes on tour. It already bas an extremely clever book by John Benedict and Tom Whedon, funny, often hilarious lyrics by Bob Schwartz and Fred Tausend, Charles Gross' skillful musical score, precision dancing--all set off by a talented, well-trained east. What is more, the various parts jell; the singing, the shuffling, the wiggling, and the acting are all woven together into one solid, colorful production...
...This week 33 ASCAP songwriters filed a civil suit against BMI, the networks and their related record companies, charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties in the past decade. Their demand: triple damages ($150 million) and a court order directing broadcasters...
...team receives a lot of help from the song department. The songs, most of them by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, are slickly routed down the memory lane of the just-gone-forty crowd. There is Something to Remember You By, Louisiana Hayride, Dancing in the Dark, the last being a lift from the original Band Wagon, a Broadway musical that starred Astaire and his sister Adele in 1931. In other respects the new musical has nothing to do with the old. Its casual plot describes the attempt of an oldtime Hollywood hoofer to get a foot back on Broadway...
...hole and in a swimming pool in a French chateau. She also swims the English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon cat and mouse...
...afternoon, another group discussed "American Policy in East Asia," with W. Barry Bingham '28, president and editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, moderating. Panel members were professors Edwin O. Reischauer, Benjamin I. Schwartz, and Robert L. Wolff...