Variety (January 1961)

76 LEGITIMATE P&RIETY Wednesday, January 18, 1961 World’s Discovery Su.->an Sherman. 20-year-old New Yorker, working in the Paul Rejnoi'Is agency in Gotham, is having her First novel, "Give Me Myself.” published by World, next month. Wiliii-in Targ, editor-in-chief of World, is touting Miss Sherman as a remarkable “discovery.” Vet playwright librettist Guy Bolton’s new novel. “The Olym¬ pians.” also for World, dealing v. :;.i the life of Mary and Percy B;. sshe* Shelley, is the result of the author’. little-known hobby: the Keats-Shelley circle. Irwin R. Blacker, currently in Hollywood on a film assignment, has his fourth book. “Days of Gold.” novel with a Yukon back¬ ground. due via World also. jEvan Hunter’s “Mothers and 'Daughters” (Simon & Schuster). | Mayes’ technique has inclined 1 more to show biz memoirs, with ; their showmanly, built-in marquee appeal, although he has also paid fancy prices for statesmen’s memoirs and the like. Brown’s Additions Bebe Bergsten, ex-James Brown Associates, has rejoined the lit¬ erary agency after a hiatus with the p.r. firm of Walker & Crenshaw and with the McCann-Erickson agency. Robert E. Lewis, ex-Crowell, is another new staffer of the authors* reppery of which James Oliver Brown is prez. Medical-Surgical Clamp Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of ■ Illinois, has merged The American Journal of Medicine Inc. and The American Journal of Surgery Inc., . both New York companies. Bar; bara H. Woodward, c/o Reuben H. .Donnelley Corporation, 466 Lex| ington avenue, filed both certifi ■ cates in Albany. She recorded another showing that • the Donnelley Corp. has merged Yorke Publishing Co. Inc. (a New York* company). Another Bardot Book N. Y. Journal -American night city editor George Carpozi is au¬ thor of a Belmont paperback origi¬ nal on Brigitte Bardot which v.p.editor-in-chief Samuel H. Post will make the firm’s No. 1 publicity Item. Carpozi has been a prolific by¬ liner of late, turning out 63 Holly¬ wood celebrity pieces and pub¬ lished in divers magazines and periodicals this past 14 months. To Aid AM-TV Newsmen Democratic assemblyman Tom Carrell, of San Fernando, has in; troduced a bill in the California • legislature to give legal support to wire service, radio and tv reporters 'and to magazine writers who refuse to name confidential news sources. Carrell said the present California law protects only newspaper re¬ porters. * In 1959 California 'Gov. Edmund \ G. Brown vetoed a bill to protect ! radio and tv newsmen, saying there i was no evidence it was needed. (As of Jan. 17, 1961, closing) Allyu & Bacon (OC) ... 3614+41* American Book (AS)... 58V* + IV* Book of Month (NY)... 26 H+1V6 Conde Nast (NY) . 15*4+ 34 Crowell-Collier (NY) ..43 +2 Curtis Pub. Co. (NY) . . . 9*4» + IV* Grolier (OC) . . . 48*/s+5 Harc’t, Brafce (OC) . 36«/2+23i Hearst (OQ) . >.11*4 Holt, R&W (NY) . 53Vg+ 1/2 L.A. Times Mirror(OC). 31* *+2*.* Macfadden (AS) . 9H— V* Macmillan (OC) . . . 71 +8 McCall (NY) . 3I**+l*h McGraw-Hill (NY) ....11544+6*4 New Yorker (OC) . 118 +6 Pocket Books . 36*4 Prentice-Hall (AS) .... 4214 + 1*4 Ran’m House (OC) .... 43*4+ *4 Scott Foresman (OC)... 273i — Time Inc. (OC) .... 85 H. W. Sams (OC) . 45»*+6 Western Pub. (OC) . 78 +1* 2 World Pub. (M> . 12** OC — Over-the-Counter N.Y. — N.Y. Stock Exchange AS — American Stock Exchange M — Midwest Note: Midwest and over the counter quotes are the Bid prices. Shows Abroad jcourant with the growing vogue of 1 barmanship, i.e. jokes, gags, games, j gambits and byplay while the boys are hoisting a few. Abel. Great For The By-Products Rivalry between the women’s magazines, notably the remarkable progress of McCall’s since Herb Mayes took over as editor-in-chief, has ke\ed competitive biddings for first serializations of new’ books. This is, of course, a wind¬ fall for the authors and their agents. Good Housekeeping, where Mayes was long theeditor, is now' balivhooing “fastest with the mostest in 1961” with serializations of “The Split-Level Trap” <Geis>. Erich Maria Remarque’s “Heaven Has No Favorites” iHarcourt, Brace & World*, Bernard Ashbell’s “When FDR Died” (Holt) and | Wordy Hutchins & Adler I In preparation for October pub¬ lication is the first annual supple¬ ment to the 54-volume Great Books of the Western World, collateral project of the Encyclopedia BriI tannica. First and future yearbooks will be tagged “The Great Ideas Today,” Vol I, II, III, etc., each to • run about a quarter 'million words, and via text and pictures wijl sjiow : how’ ideas and events of the present j relate to ideas and events of the i past. ! Co-editors of the annual are ! Robert M. Hutchins, and philoso¬ pher Mortimer Adler. Just Concluded Successful SOUTH AMERICAN Singing Engagements For Open Dates Contact! NIKARD1 PROD. . Toronto Star’s New M. E. Himie Koshevoy, 50, is’ new man¬ aging ed 1 ir • of Canada’s largest daily, Toronto Star (334,000). He replaces Borden Spears, who quit, was lured back then quit again to become asst, to Floyd Chalmers, president of Maclean-Hunter Ltd., , Canada’s largest mag house (Mac| lean’s et al>. Spears had been with I the Star about 20 years except for war service. Koshevoy. who's been m.e. of Vancouver Sun and executive edi: tor of Vancouver Province, has also : freelanced for U. S. and Canadian periodicals. Georgia’s Press Georgia Press Advertising Serv¬ ice’s new* directory reveals Georgia has 222 newspapers read by more than 1,000,000 daily and weekly. Directory lists 28 daily Georgia newspapers, 194 weeklies and 10 Sunday editions. Two new mem¬ bers of Gebrgia press family are The Hahira Gold Leaf and Blairs! ville Mountaineer. ; Advertising Service, a division of ’ Georgia Press Assn., reveals that one Georgia paper, Cedartown i Standard, has switched, from daily : to twice-a-week issuance. Two for| mer weeklies, Covington News and jjesup Sentinel, became two-timesi a-weekers. ! Atlanta Journal remains the larg¬ est member in Georgia’s press family with a daily listing of 259,230 subscribers. Danielsville Mon¬ itor is smallest with 285 sub¬ scribers. Boozing Can Be Fun 1 Gold Medal’s (Fawcett* “VIP’s | All New Bar Guide," with some clever text by John Armstrong and an anthology of Virgil Partch’s (VIP's) cartoons, is not all fluff and frivolity. While out to prove that drinking can be fun, Arm¬ strong’s well edited words range from bar jokes to bar games; from recipes to a dictionary ex¬ plaining virtually every brand of alcoholic beverage, vintage, origin, j region, and the like. Lots of value j and fun is packed into this 35c ! original paperback, j Armstrong and VIP are also au | CHATTER Bantam Books Inc. has acquired ; paperback reprint rights to “Good| bye, Ava,” novel by Richard Bis! sell. i Ned Schnurman, who’s taking a ! year’s sabbatical as rewrite man ;for the Newark News, is working on the news desk of the Paris edi¬ tion of the N. Y. Herald Tribune. Milwaukee Press Club has Harry Sonneborn, City Editor of The Milwaukee Journal, as new presi¬ dent. Other officers: Jack E. Krueger, Walter Wegner, treasurer and Bennett Waxse, secretary. Three officers of Albany Local 36 of the American Newspaper Guild have been re-elected. James Gallagher, travel editor of The Times-Union, defeated Ben Seidenberg, of that paper’s circulation department. Ann Bolich, of The Knickerbocker New.s, and Paul Ly; man, of The Times-Union. were ; re-chosen. Chet Vanderbilt, of (The Times-Union, defeated incum; bent John Archer, for first vice| president, while Phil Joyce, of the ! T-U, whipped incumbent Theron Britain, of The nickerbocker News, for the post of second vicepresident. The Lion in Love London. Dec. 30. English Stage Co. presentation (in asso¬ ciation with Wolf Mankowitz) Of a threeact drama by Shelagh Delaney. Staged by Una Collins; incidental music, Monty Her¬ man. Opened Dec. 29. '60. at the Royal Court Theatre, London; $2.20 top. Andy . John Rees Jesse _ «..v. . Howard Goorney Peg . . . Patricia Healey Banner . Kenneth Cope , Frank . Garfield Morgan I Cross-Lane Nora . Diana Coupland 1 Kit . Patricia Burke ; Loll . Peter Fraser ; Nell . Renny Lister I Ena . Margery Mason .Lena . Jeanette Hider 1 Local Townspeople . Juliet AUiston, I Anthony Beeston. Brian Croft, Maureen Dormer. Dermot McDoweU j Guitarists Martin Kershaw, John Bennett ! Although “A Taste of Honey” be. came a freak success for Shelagh Delaney, her second play, “The Lion in Love,” shows little pros¬ pect of repeating. It met with a fairly frigid reception on tour. Now, with slight revisions, it has been brought to the Royal Court for a limited engagement. Miss Delaney has yet to show that she can construct a play. Her chief talent is an ability to evoke an occasion colorful phrase and in her understanding of the North Country characters with whom she has been reared. But a straggly, untidy slice of life in a dingy Northern town does not make a play. At least, not in this Instance. “The Lion in Love” concerns the yearnings of people to break away from environment and do‘ mestic shackles. It jerks along in ! uneven cameos and then abruptly i comes to an end. Meanwhile the authoress has dealt scarppily with a feckless, goodtime housewife, the ; husband who wants to leave her j for another woman but never will, ‘a grandfather who hangs around ; the house, the daughter who falls | for a shy young man and the son i who emigrates to Australia. For ‘good measure, there are flung in some gossiping neighbors, a tart who wants to give it up and her pimp who decides that they can’t afford to. For the first act these characters hold interest, but it presently be¬ comes obvious that neither their actions nor their observations are going to open up original spheres of thought. Clive Barker’s direc¬ tion is spasmodic and often too slow. There is a feeling that an un¬ even cast has been left too much to its own resources. Patricia Burke brings gusto and some pathos to the role of the slat. tern, and her verbal duels with her • husband, played by Garfield MorI gan, have wry fascination. Howard Goorney is in good form as the garrulous grandfather. Other useful performances come from Kenneth Cope, Diana Coup¬ land and Peter Fraser, while Pai tricia Healey, as the daughter, set-, j ties down after an uncertain start to a delicate and sympathetic per' formance as the most rounded char¬ acter in the cast. Una Collins’ open set often con¬ fuses the action, but her backcloth . excellently suggests the atmos¬ phere of a small industrial town. Rich. PROFESSIONAL CARDS HONORED Theatrical and TV Make Up • All Leading Cosmetic Lines » Imported & Domestic Perfumes • Distinctive Fountain Service. FREE DELIVERY OPEN SUNDAYS "The Drug Store of the Stars" HADLEY REXALL DRUGS 1181 4th Ave., Cor. 44 St., NEW YORK Telephone PLaza 7-0022 FOR RENT Fully equipped summer theatre In Andrews Mtmorial, seating 550, with all assafeories. easy parking. Situated in beautiful shore resort town of Clinton, Connecticut on Loni Island Sound. If interested please call er write Charles Kaai. F.icst Selectman. Andrews Memorial, Clinton, ' Connecticut. 'Phone MO t-8272. Canada’s Rising Ad ‘Nationalism’ Ottawa. Jan. 17 Not merely 69^0 of Canadian-owned firms “but also 33cr of U.S.owned firms, in a poll of major advertisers, considered U. S. “Ca¬ nadian editions (such as Time's and Reader’s Digest’s* unfair com¬ petition” to Canadian-owned, mags. So did 90% of Canadian ad agencies and 50% of U. S. agencies operating in Canada, who re¬ plied. One said, “Some of the publications now producing so-called Canadiah editions are merely looting the Canadian market for ads.” Poll results were given out — despite pollsters’ bid to keep them dark — by the Royal Commission on Publications now con¬ sidering the plight of Canadian-owned mags in face of U. S. split-runs and “Canadian editions.” Survey was conducted by Ca¬ nadian Assn, of Advertising Agencies ii2 of whose 44 members are U. S.-controlled) and Assoc, of Canadian Advertisers (twothirds of whose 160 members are U. S.-owned*. 84 ' h of agencies voted, but only 20% of advertisers. Taxing United States split-runs entering Canada was favored not only by 01% of Canadian-owned firms but by 03% of U. S.-owned ones. (Such a tax was levied by a previous government, but with¬ drawn by the present one*. U. S.-owned firms also voted 45^ for requiring a fixed “Canadian-originating content,” with Canadianowned advertisers 61% for it. Both groups opposed a general tax on all foreign mags entering Canada — which organized Canadian mag publishers also oppose. Hooray For Daisy London, Jan. 2. I.innit & Dunfee Ltd. presentation of a ; two-act (13 scenes) musical, with book I and lyrics by Julian Slade and Dorothy ' Reynolds, music by Julian Slade. Staged ! by Dennis Carey; musical numbers staged j by Basil Pattison; at the pianos, Julian : Slade and Martin Goldstein, with Jack ■ Greenwood on percussion. Opened De-c. ! 20, '60. at the Lyric Opera House,. Ham¬ mersmith. London; $1.75 top. 1 Thompson . John Davidson i Harry Tuck . Edward Hardwicks Willy Watchett . Joe Greig I Lawrence Pewsey . Angus Mackay Dr. Mason . Norman Jones Vetch ' . Bernard Dickerson Billy Withers . David Ryder Brackenbury . Derek Smee Doreen Clarke . Anne Grayson Audrey Landon . . Paddy Frost Greer Perry . Anna Dawson Myrna . Annette Gibson Nancy . Hazel Wright Priscilla Vernon . Eleanor Drew Georuina Cosens . Dorothy Reynolds Stranger . Robin Hunter Mrs. Burne-Browne Margaret Denyer •Waiter David Ryder Wine-Waiter . Norman Jones Clerk . . . Anna Dawson Hotel Mnaager . Derek Smee Commissionaires....... John Davidson, Bernard Dickerson W'izard Norman Jones Chambermaids . ...... .Annette Gibson, Hazel Wright •Waitress . . Anne Grayson Scullery Maid . Paddy Frost Some years ago a naive but fresh and gay show called “Salad Days” played the Bristol Old Vic, was transferred to London and this naive, and became the world’s longest running musical. The scribes, Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds, have made several other stabs at similar success, but no dice. Sticking rigidly to an unsophisti¬ cated formula, their efforts get progressively less enchanting. The latest, also first seen at Bristol Old Vic, comes as a brief Christmas booking at the Lyric, Hammer¬ smith. , It’s a colossal floperoo, a feeble charade that merely clutters a professional stage. There is little point in trying to unravel the thin but odd plot. It concerns a young woman who re¬ turns to her native village, is pursued by all. the eligible males and gets involved in rehearsals for the village pantomime. Slade’s melodies are tinkly, tha lyrics undistinguished and the book is lamentable. The show is cleanly wholesome to the point of insipidity. The dresses are fresh and gay. Dorothy Reynolds, with utonguein-the-cheek performance, man¬ ages to get more laughter out of her acting than in her co-writing with Slade. Eleanor Drew sings sweetly, but acts with less con¬ fidence. The title character, in¬ cidentally, is a pantomime cow. Rich. LONDON SHOWS (Figures denote opening dates > Amorous Prawn, SavUle (12-9-59). And Another Thins, Fortune (10-6-60). Antonio, Royalty (11-30-60). Art of Living, Criterion (8-18-60). Billy Liar, Cambridge (9-13-60). Bride Comes Back, Vaude (11-25*60). Caretaker, Duchess (4-27-60). Chin-Chin, Wyndham's (11-3-60). Cinderella, Adelphl (12-23-60). D'Oyly Carte Opera, Princes (12-1960). Emil B Detectives, Mermaid (12-1560). FIngs Ain't, Garrick (2-1160). Flower Drum Song, Palace (3-2460). Gazebo, Savoy 6-29-60). Hooray for Daisy, Lyric Ham. (12-2060). Imperial Nightingale, Arts (12-2160). Irma La Douce, Lyric (7-17-58) Life of Party, Lyric H'smlth (11-2260). Lion In Love, Royal Court (12-2160). Man fqr All Seasons, Globe (7-160). Most Happy Fella/ Coliseum (4-2160X Mousetrap, Ambassadors (11-25-52). My Fair Lady, Drury Lane (4-30-58). Oliver, New (6-3060). Peter Pap, Scala (12-1660). Progress Park, T’tre Royal E. (11-1660). Repertory, Aldwych (12-1560). Repertory, Old Vic (9-3-59). Rose Marie, Victoria Pal. (8-2260). Ross, Haymarket (5-1260). Settled Out of Court, Strand (10-1960). Simple Spymen, Whitehall (3-19-58). Sive, Lyric Hammersmith (10-2460). Surie Wong, Prince Wales (11-17-59). Tiger A Horse, Queen's (8-2460) Toad of Toad Hall, W'stm'st'r (12-2060). Toys In Attic, Piccadilly (11-1060). Waiting In Wings, Duke York’s (9-760). Watch It, Sailor, Apollo (2-2460). Way to the Tomb, Arts (11-260). West Side Story, Majesty’s 12-12-5S). Young In Heart, Vic. Pal. (12-21-60). SCHEDULED OPENINGS Three, Arts (M861). Bargain, St. Martin’s (1-1961). Fairy Tales, Comedy (1-2461). Masterpiece, Royalty (1-2661). Tokyo 1941, Coliseum (1-2861). Magic Lantern, Seville (2661). CLOSED Naked Island, Arts (11-2860). Playboy W. World, St. Mart (10-1260). Tinker, Comedy (12-760). ATTENTION Stock Producers Air-conditioned auditorium for summer stock lease. Capacity 2502. Large stage, plenty of lines and lighting. Basement large enough for rehearsals, set building and painting. 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