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75. Letter of April 20, 1955, Levin to Actors’ Equity Association, HLP, 25/5.

76. Letter of April 27, 1955, Actors’ Equity Association to Levin, HLP, 25/5.

77. Letter of May 14, 1955, Smith to Levin, HLP, 26/6.

78. Letter of May 17, 1955, Levin to Smith, HLP, 26/6.

79. Letters of May 20 and June 2, 1955, between Smith and Levin, HLP, 26/6.

80. Lerner, Street, 61–62.

81. “Suggested Deal—CBS” of May 23, 1955, HLP, 27/10. The fruits of the advertising aspect of the deal came to bear in February 1956. A letter from CBS to Levin lists fourteen television spots in the following week in which the opening of My Fair Lady would be announced. Letter of February 10, 1956, Sam Cook Digges of CBS to Levin, and attached list, HLP, 33/5.

82. Letter of June 15, 1955, Irving Cohen to Levin, HLP, 27/10.

83. Agreement of July 18, 1955, between Levin and CBS, HLP, 28/5.

84. Letter of June 13, 1955, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

85. Letter of June 24, Beaton to Levin, HLP, 24/7.

86. Letters of March 16 and May 19, 1955, Geoffrey to Levin; letters of June 12 and July 27, Levin to Geoffrey, HLP, 23/5. Michael King would go on to earn $200 a week in this role.

87. Letter of June 29, 1955, Lou Wilson to Levin, HLP, 25/5.

88. Letter of June 28, 1955, Levin’s amanuensis—presumably his secretary—to W. H. Worrall (Levin’s London broker for this negotiation), HLP, 25/7.

89. Letter of July 6, 1955, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

90. Letter of July 6, 1955, Levin to Beaton, HLP, 24/7.

91. Telegrams of July 12 and 13, 1955, between Levin and Evans, and letter of July 15, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

92. Letter of July 15, Levin to Beaumont, HLP, 25/7. Evans’s secretary wrote a further letter to Levin that day to inform him of an error in the letter regarding the date of Nina’s opening: she had written August 27 instead of August 7, but it had now been changed to July 27. Letters of July 15, 1955, Evans and Eileen Rutherford to Levin, HLP 27/5.

93. Letter of July 15, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

94. Letter of July 18, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

95. Letter of July 18, 1955, Levin to Aza, HLP, 25/9.

96. Letter of July 29, 1955, Levin to Evans; telegram, Levin to Evans of July 28, HLP, 25/7.

97. Letter of July 19, 1955, Beaumont to Levin. In another letter, of July 26, he restated the complexity of his position, HLP, 25/7.

98. Telegram of July 20, 1955, Evans to Levin, and telegram of July 20, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7. Levin wrote snappily to Evans: “IMPOSSIBLE WAIT AUGUST 21 SITUATION HERE INTOLERABLE. LERNER AND LOEWE ARRIVE LONDON JULY 31. I ARRIVE AUGUST 3. PLEASE ARRANGE HOTEL.”

99. Telegram of July 28, 1955, Levin to Evans, HLP, 25/7.

100. Letter of July 28, 1955, Gielgud to Hugh Wheeler. Richard Mangan, ed., Gielgud’s Letters (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004), 183.

101. Telegram of August 1, 1955, Levin to Evans, HLP,, 25/7.

102. Telegram of August 12, 1955, Evans to Levin, HLP, 25/7.

103. Memorandum of telephone conversation 5:15 p.m., August 17, 1955, between Levin and Moskowitz, HLP, 25/7.

104. Memorandum of telephone conversation between Levin and Evans at 3:10 p.m. on August 18, 1955, HLP, 25/7.

105. Telegram of August 26, 1955, Evans to Levin, HLP, 25/7.

106. Untitled memorandum of August 30, 1955, HLP, 25/7. A couple of annotations in Levin’s handwriting indicate the memo is probably his.

107. Letter of September 1, 1955, Beaumont to Levin (with a draft version attached), HLP, 25/7.

108. Contract between Levin and Harrison, September 2, 1955, HLP, 23/10.

109. Contract between Levin and Andrews, September 8, 1955, HLP, 23/10

110. Contract between Levin and Holloway, September 13, 1955, HLP, 23/10

111. Contract between Levin and Michael King, September 23, 1955, HLP, 26/8.

112. Memorandum Re: Robert Coote, September 27, 1955, HLP, 23/9. On March 26, 1956, Tom Helmore was hired as Rex Harrison’s understudy.

113. Rider dated June 15, 1955, between Levin and the Trebuhs Realty Company, HLP, 24/3. Telegram of September 2, Levin in London to Lerner in New York, HLP, 25/7. Contract between Levin and Farrell of 9 September, HLP, 25/7. The choice of the Mark Hellinger was considered a bad omen, since that venue had not enjoyed success before, but after the triumph of My Fair Lady Lerner went on to use it for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Coco.

114. Contract of September 15, 1955, between Levin and the Shuberthaven Operating Company, HLP, 24/3.

115. Contract of October 3, 1955, between Levin and 265 Tremont Street Inc. for the Shubert Theatre, Boston. Contract of November 2, 1955, between Levin and Goldlawr, Inc, for the Erlanger Theatre, HLP, 24/3.

116. Elliott Norton, “Fair Lady Twice Passes Up Hub, Waits ’til 59,” Boston Daily Record, November 11, 1957. Accessed from a photocopy in HLP, 33/5.

117. Agreements of June 27 and September 12, 1955, between Levin and Allers, c/o Meyer Davis Music, HLP, 26/3.

118. Letter of September 20, 1955, Albert Sirmay to Levin; contract of August 31, 1955, between Levin and Chappell’s, HLP, 26/3.

119. Letter of September 12, 1955, in which Levin asks Irving Cohen to draw up new contracts with Beaton and Smith to provide for the possible television transmission that may take place under the agreement with CBS, HLP, 24/7. On September 19, David Grossberg of Reinheimer and Co. sent Smith’s contract to Levin, who then passed it on to Rudy Karnolt of United Scenic Artists the next day. At the same time, the producer submitted Abe Feder’s contract to do the lighting for the show. Letter of September 19, 1955, David Grossberg to Herman Levin, and letter of September 20, Levin to Rudy Karnolt. Smith’s contract is dated September 20, 1955, HLP, 26/6. Beaton’s contract is dated September 22, 1955, and was submitted to Arnold Weissberger that day by Levin. Weissberger returned them, signed, on September 28. Contract and letter from Levin to Weissberger, HLP, 24/7. Of the circumstances of Hanya Holm’s joining the show, very little documentary evidence