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FRANK MANDEL of the happily recalled Schwab-Mandel partnership is about to return to Broadway production, having been absent from these parts for a matter of about ten years. He has acquired the rights to "V for Vickie," by the Siegfried M. Herzig who less formally is known as Sig Herzig.
LONDON. THE chief theatrical event of the past week was the production of a new play by Laurence Housman; but because the Old Vic company now is on tour, I had to go to Birmingham to see it.
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1942Andy Irvine, Irish folk musician[â ]
Andrew Kennedy Irvine is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Usher's Island. He also featured in duos, with DĂłnal Lunny, Paul Brady, Mick Hanly, Dick Gaughan, Rens van der Zalm, and Luke Plumb. Irvine plays the mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica, and hurdy-gurdy.
1942Jonathan Raban, English author and academic (died 2023)[â ]
Jonathan Mark Hamilton Priaulx Raban was a British award-winning travel writer, playwright, critic, and novelist.
1942Roberto GarcĂa-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (died 2008)[â ]
Roberto GarcĂa-Calvo Montiel was a Spanish judge. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Constitutional Court of Spain, sponsored by the conservative People's Party. In the last year of the Francoist State, GarcĂa-Calvo served as a local official repressing workers strikes. During his serving in the highest court, he has been considered as part of the persistence of the shadow of Francoism in the Spanish institutions. He died by natural causes on May 17, 2008 at aged 65 in Villaviciosa de OdĂłn, Madrid.