Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows, a hint of "adult" comedy. All the old standbys were there-Dinah Shore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Perry Como. The newest TV face turned out to be one of the oldest in show business: Ed Wynn, 71. In the preview, at least, he was involved in an embarrassingly corny act, plugging his own forthcoming dramatic series alongside a stripper, each of whose removable scanties carried an announcement for some NBC attraction...
...sculptures covering nearly half a century's work. "One has to go back to Rodin and beyond that to Michelangelo to be able to match this experience," raved one Rotterdam critic. Dutch Sculptor Leo Braat said, "This work is anything but a play of forms; it is an act of faith, a revelation.". In Basel, Switzerland, where the exhibition opened last month, critics greeted Lipchitz as "the greatest cubist among sculptors." Ahead for the show lie Munich, Dortmund, Brussels, Rome, Paris, London...
...winners (winnowed from 1,000 applicants) were hampered by shaky Italian diction and an occasional tendency to overact from sheer youthful exuberance (Painter Marcello, in Act I, hurled his brush clear offstage into the orchestra pit). But audience and critics were impressed by the Americans' voices and technique. The best voice in the group, many thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous...
...Gordimer, a Johanne burger herself, tours this world of racial strangers with easy accuracy. When she describes a party, white or mixed, a hunting trip, or an illicit visit to a colored shebeen (speakeasy), there is always a byproduct of insights into what is meant by every word or act. When she has finished with Toby Hood, he is a changed man. Any reader who shares Toby's indifference may feel at least the beginnings of a similar change of heart...
Player's Weight. In Blackpool, England, Ventriloquist Terry Hall was threatened with loss of membership in the Association of Non-Smokers unless he stops his dummy from smoking during the act...