Word: banteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faye Banter gets top billing in the show, and her portrayal of the mother (put them all together you've got MOTHER. . .) is engagingly domineering. Hers is the usual Junior-League-25-years-after sort of role, however, and her comic talents are barely exercised. Arthur Starch, as her son, alternately months and shouts his lines. And his boudoir transformation obviously seems as preposterous to him as the stilted lover scene through which the authors wring him in the first act. It is not his fault that the growing pains have a few audible creaks...
Suddenly the rhythm seems to shift gears. Bits of familiar harmonies reappear. In a few moments, it is all over, and the music relaxes. Desmond returns for a bit of polyphonic banter with the relaxed piano, finally swings into a recapitulation of the introduction, and the audience sits back with a sigh before it applauds...
...play is unsatisfying; it lacks the right touch and tone. Its setup calls for something cool, smooth, quietly disdainful; far too often it is given something Broadwayish and breezy-stretches in which grown-men exchange banter about sex and a scene of disheveled, morning-after, mail-order farce. There is too palpable an air of We Aim To Please about it, and of aiming to please the very far from fussy...
...filmed show was reminiscent of many of the earliest TV efforts: Crosby spent much of his time standing in front of a stage curtain, delivering mild jokes that were greeted with uproarious laughter supplied by a film sound track. Jack Benny appeared as a foil and traded fairly predictable banter with Crosby. Bing sang four songs, danced with a chorus, and was so smothered in facial makeup as to be expressionless. The most exciting thing in the show was long-legged Sheree North, a pretty girl with a modest ability to read funny lines and a whole-bodied...
...major sports share the top point award (10) with editors-in-chief of the weekly paper and the yearbook, plus the manager of football. Managers of the other major sports are on the next point rung down along with the editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, The Banter...