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Manhattan's seventh annual Polonaise Ball was a little bit of Old Warsaw on Old Park Avenue. The Old Warsaw Orchestra played the Krakowiak, and nearly everybody was there: Mrs. Artur Rubinstein, Mrs. Artur Rodzinski, Vera Zorina...
Harvard's starting unit will again consist of Augustine, and Leo Scully at guard, Vera Strand at the post, and Pete Kelley and Denny Lynch is the forward slots...
...Like a Bird. It was while he was with Denny that Lyman discovered the value of bird calls. One night, he recalls, he had "a little to drink," and when the trio began playing the theme from the movie Vera Cruz, he tried a few experimental squawks. "The next thing you know," says he, "the audience started to answer me back with all kinds of weird cries. It was great...
...eventual illumination that the captivating but amoral and egocentric hero brings to those around him. Joey never seems subject to the ideal of constancy which the romantic mind pursues all the more diligently as the improbability of attaining it increases, In renouncing Joey at the end of the musical, Vera Simpson gains immensely in moral stature as Joey diminishes. Linda, or Mousey, who has not learned the lesson of coping with irresponsible charm, remains alone and monetarily bereft of any spiritual sustenance...
Steve Lawrence makes his stage debut in the title role of the Framingham production, and his stage presence and delivery of the songs are able and sometimes compelling. He does, however, fail to capture the essential coarseness of the hero. Irene Manning very effectively portrays the aging Vera Simpson, in her progress into and out of a hopeless love affair. Karen Thorsell as Linda makes the most of the least individual character in the play, and Mara Lynn brings a wonderful, brassy professionalism to the role of Fladys Bumps. Minor parts, especially Renee Taylor's Melba, are well done. Both...