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...Abner. A lusty copy of Al Capp's comic-strip characters, with some lilting Dogpatch music. In MONTREAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans' Hamlet, The Trojan Women, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he wrote incidental music), The Consul and Li'l Abner (for which he served as pit conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Man-About-Music | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian bit by Elaine: "And there she was feeling her armpits-glad that they were there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fresh Eggheads | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...rest of his family can be so beastly. His daughter Dahlin' Jill (Fay Spain) is the sort of Georgia peach that any man can pluck-and several do. His daughter-in-law Griselda (played by Tina Louise, the Appassionata von Climax of Broadway's Li'l Abner) plays her most important role in the hay with her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray), an event that, for one quaint reason or another, gives the fellow's wife almost as much satisfaction as it gives Griselda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Another use that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The University Life of Abner Yokum | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

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