Certain showmen were presented in the previous month’s installment of this column along with ideas they projected from their shows and other writings: Richard Wagner, his 16 operas drawn from centuries of German traditions, legends, myths and folklore, plus his fanatical anti-Semitic hatred and humanity-shattering legacy; Novelist James Michener, whose many broad novels of places and peoples in the American experience are legendary in print and cinema; Composer Richard Rogers and Dramatist/Lyric Writer Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. with Joshua Logan, who all contributed to the Broadway musical 'South Pacific.' Following is a summary of the ‘first’ version of this multi-form and ...