The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
new YORK PLANS
2 new MUSICALS
Gross Town And Make
Mine Manhattan Are
Newest Productions
BY JACK O'BRIAN


NEW YORK, March %. -(P-
Peter L d Hayes, last seasons
cafe sensation on Broadway when
he starred at the Copacabana,
will be the feature of "cross
town." a new musical announced
for fall production. Peters
wife, Mary Healy, recently a film
starlet and more recently the
feminine feature of Orson Welles'
burnt musical offering, "around
the World" will have the distaff
lead, that of a hatcheck girl in
a fashionable New York restau-
rant. =. 1t has a score by Richard
Liebert, George Blake, Arthur
Siegel, Jeff Bailey and Tom Pri-
deux.
Joseph Hyman also has a must
cal on tap, a revue entitled
IN a k m e Manhattan" de-
scribed as a semi-satirical revue
with New York as its general
subject. Arnold HorWitt is the
author of the sketches and lyrics
and the tunes will come from the
heads and harps of Billy Provost
and Richard Levine. By Harry
Kurnitz, one of the most depend
able movie comedy writer's, and
Jerome Chodorov, who has a long
list of stage credits staring him
in the back my Sister Eileen,
Junior Miss.
Donald Richards, romantic lead
of "Finian's Rainbow" will
double into grand opera, singing
"Pagliacci' April 20 with the
City Center Opera Company.
Are you with it," one of last
seasons musical comedies, will
have Peter Lind Hayes a d
Donald O'Connor as it's stars when
Universal begins shooting the
screen version. John Wildberg
also is interested in reviving it
for a run in Chicago, with Lew
Parker, star of the show when it
was on Broadway, n of the pro-
fession's slickest light comedians,
again in the comic lead.
Joseph Fields e comedy
about the United Nations will be
called "One World to a
Customer" A new play by
John Cecil Holm, who wrote
"Three Men on a Horse" is
scheduled for prompt production,
Creamery. Ghost" to be
presented by Jack Mehler and
Faith Holm.
Helen Hayes all well again
after a brief illness during which
Happy Birthday" was forced to
close.
Reversing h e usual device of
rewriting a Broadway script into
a radio play, Russell S. Hughes,
a Hollywood writer, has expanded
his radio dramatization of the life
of Luther Burbank, the hortlcul-
turist, into Broadway form. Using
the same title as when played on
"Cavalcade of America" 1.-THE
Man With the Green Fingers" it
is scheduled for autumn pre-
sentation.
Including : the . Scandinavian
department: Norfegian rights to
"Born Yesterday have been
acquired for presentation in Oslo,
Bergen, Trondheim and Sta
vanger. Bambi Linn, a delight
/ n "Oklahoma!" in a small
dancing part and a minor sem
sation in "Carousel' as the TOM
boy daughter, will play her first
major role as Alice in "Alice in
| Wonderland" That Lewis Carroll
delight, as adapted by Eva L e
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premieres April 5 at the Inter-
national theater, under the
auspices of the American roper
tory theater. There's also a
score by Richard Addinsell, whose
name appears as composer or
conductor on a great many of the
better films imported from Eng
land.
Arthur Lesser, who is showing
Maurice Chevalier most success
fully at the Henry Miller theater.
will produce an international re-
vue in the fall, starring Lucienne
Boyer. . "a new Irish playwri ght,
Frank Kearney, has written 1.-THE
Righteous Are Bold" for which
| Eddie Bowling has arranged the
Broadway production rights.
Harvey passed its 1,000th per-
formance, "Carousel' its 8O0th
and the perennial "Oklahoma!"
notched its l,7O0th during the last
few days. . ."Finian's Rainbow
will be produced in London by
Louis Dreyfus. . "a nucleus OF
American dancers will Junket
abroad for the engagement, but
English and Irish principals Will
be used mostly. . current favor
tie Broadway argument: which is
better, "Finian's Rainbow or
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