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...Hammy, for the best comedy show of the season. Scripts rattled, eyes squinted at TelePrompTers. In Chicago, WLS Advertising Director Frank Nardi made his broadcasting debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes. . .aah. . .I mean twelve minutes after three. . . wheee." At Chicago's WBBM-TV, Salesman Frank Palmer all but burned up the airways. Winding up the 5 p.m. news, he lit his pipe just like a real Walter Cronkite, burned his fingers...
...worst of all, the drama and irony of the third act have been buried in a confused effort to duplicate the movie on the stage. Stills from the film of Major Barbara were projected onto the rear of the stage, with appropriate ooh's and aah's from the characters, to create the illusion of traveling through a large munitions plant. But no illusion was achieved, only five minutes of some persons looking at some pictures and pretending those pictures were real. Because Criss provided no adequate impression of the factory, the dialogue took place in the middle of nowhere...
...anyway, and that it was only a matter of doing this a little earlier. Other girls questioned felt that buffet meals, to which you can come at any time within the meal hours, would be more convenient when you are studying. "Sunday lunch is so ridiculous," said one girl, "Aah, shut up," said another...
Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...
...lapsed into his old erratic play, lost 4-6 to Quist's heady tennis. In the third game of the third set, Quist moved in to the net, won a brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills for booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder's aces whistled past, lost the final two sets 6-0, 6-0. Up in Row P, a lady murmured...