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Placido Domingo sang “The Rain in Spain” and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. recited the lyrics to “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” as an international array of stars paid tribute to the late lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in London on Sunday night. Lerner’s widow, actress-singer Liz Robertson, organized the black-tie evening at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, as a benefit for lung cancer research at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital. Lerner, whose career encompassed such Broadway landmarks as “Brigadoon,” “Camelot” and “My Fair Lady,” died last June of lung cancer at the age of 68. Other attendees and performers Sunday included Len Cariou, Burton Lane and Jean-Pierre Aumont.

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