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They need everything they have in Tickets Please!. At times even their own material deserts them, and little else is ever on their side. Jack Albertson has an engagingly easy manner; and Roger Price, a recurrent monologuist with a sketchbook, says some funny things, but by no means often enough. For the rest, a number of colorless young people romp around in various wobbly sketches and sing some tormentingly vapid love songs. Since the Hartmans are the whole show, it's too bad they aren...
Except for a wretched vocal group called "The Upstarts," the cast is uniformly excellent. Especially worth mention is a young dancer named Dorothy Jarnae, who has an amazingly mobile body and face. Her performance of her own choreography, is a high point in the show. Jack Albertson is another talented fellow who can do anything from a good buck-and-wing to double talk; Patricia Bright is a very attractive and delightful singing comedienne. Roger Price, a latter-day Herb Shriner, is an amusing monologuist, and a clever cartoonist as well...
...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
...When the Hays Office at first thumbs-downed the picture's title, Producer D. Sylva and Director Kanin, an old Samuel Goldwyn man, offered the company a $200 prize for the best substitute. The contest was abandoned when Actor Frank Albertson solemnly submitted as his entry "Du Sylva Threads Among the Goldwyn...
Married. Walter Lippmann, famed newspaper columnist, divorced last Deccember from Faye Albertson Lippmann; to Mrs. Helen Byrne Armstrong, former wife of Author Hamilton Fish Armstrong; in Manhattan...