David Merrick recently took his annual physical examination at Boston's Lahey Clinic, and his friends may be relieved to learn that he does not have a long red pointy tail. In other respects, however, David is a devil of a fellow.
Not since Belasco and Ziegfeld has the theater produced such a successful and spectacular producer-star. To the millions who follow his exclamatory career on the front pages and the late shows, he gleefully presents himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold,...
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