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Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 45

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Phoenix, Arizona
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(Section ALL EDITIONS Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. November 1,1959 Kager For New Musical Martin To Play Baroness Role By WILLIAM GLOVER NEW YORK (AP) Mary Martin is extra eager over her new Broadway adventure. "At last I can be all woman!" she exults, looking back at 10 years of tomboy, curl-cropped roles. Her pleasure concerns "The Sound of Music" and the excitement is proving contagious. The show bids fair to become a Broadway landmark for several reasons.

It is notable as the first joint creation of the theater's two most famous hit making duos: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, songwriters extraordinary; Howard Lindsay and I Grouse, the doyens of team authorship. AT THE BOX office, TICKETS NOW ON SALE! NOV. ii Guy Lombardo 1 RIVERSIDE PARK "The Sound of Music" is causing notable By opening night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater Nov. 12, the advance ticket sale is expected to reach $2 million, a Rialto record. Along With husband Richard Halliday, Miss Martin has had her sights trained on the venture for almost three years.

"I absolutely adored it from the start," says Mary of the book which inspired the show. Written by Baroness Maria von Trapp, it is the life, account of the Austrian family which fled Hitler in 1938, then sang its way into the hearts of concert audiences across the United States. There is a special Mary-Maria affinity, Miss Martin notes. "The baroness first saw me in 1957 doing 'Annie Get Your says Fabulous Offer! Dance Course 24 LESSONS For $COO Only Dale Dance Studios 509 W. Thomas Rd.

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Central AM 5-5562 the lady from Weatherford, Tex. "Afterwards we met and she said 'But you are THE, TWO visited together recently at the Trapp home in Stowe, but Mary is not planning slavish imitation of the original. The familiar voice, for example, will have its usual drawling twang. "I tried changing my voice only once," she notes. "That was years ago in a Noel Coward show in London, and I didn't even understand what I was saying." After extended stints as sharpshooting "Annie," a A More Feminine Part For Mary Hiinilel To lie Honored Program To Be Given By Musicians Club Phoenix Musicians Club will commemorate the bi-centenary of George Friedrich Handel with a program 8:15 p.m.

tomorrow at the Woman's Club, 302 W. Earl! Dr. A biographical sketch of Handel will be given by Mrs. G. H.

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McDaniel. She will play Aria (Rinaldo), Largo (Xerxes), and Concerto No. 7, Op 71, Andante. Mrs. Philip Shaw, soprano, will be heard in "He Was Despised" (Messiah); "Lascia ch'io panga" (Rinaldo); "Af- fani del pensier" (Ottone); and "Father of Heaven" (Judas Maccabaeus).

All are by Handel. Mrs. R. G. Bauerbach will be the accompanist.

Mrs. Louise Kerr, violinist; Harvey Zorn, oboist; and Warren Wirtz, pianist will play J. S. Bach's "Concerto in Minor" (adagio movement), and Mrs. Betty Brown, violin, and Mrs.

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J. W. Keating; members-at-large, Ralph Hess, Al Becker, and Miss Doyle. wartime nurse in "South Pacific" and hoyden "Peter Pan," Miss Martin is revelling in fair-sex finery and a coiffure other than boyish bob. Although the part won't have quite as much dancing as some of her past roles, her energies are finding new outlets.

Mary has learned to play a guitar and also to yodel for "The Sound of Music." "I'm a much more lyrical character than I have ever been before," she sums! up. About a year ago Lindsay-Crouse, after 18 years of promising to write a show for her, came up with a stage treatment of the Trapp saga. Coburn All-Night Dancer HOLLYWOOD (AP)-Actress Erin O'Brien says Charles Coburn's marriage didn't surprise her. The veteran actor, now 83, recently wed a widow less than half his age. "Charlie and I worked together in Madrid in 'John Paul the young Miss O'Brien says, "He'd ask me to go out for dinner with him, which I ditf several times.

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