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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame in Lend, an Ear. Last week she drew rave reviews; one critic ecstatically called her "the funniest female since Fanny Brice and Beatrice Lillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Fanny Brice Show (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Baby Snooks returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Anybody with a bank account and sailing experience can sail the Pacific next summer according to Brice Sumner '53, who plans to pilot a 35-foot sailboat from Nagoya, Japan, to San Francisco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hopes To Cross Pacific | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...show (with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Variety Show in Manhattan | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Except for Fanny Brice, as Baby Snooks, no woman comic has ever seriously challenged radio's top funnymen. Most radio comediennes (Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Jane Ace, Gracie Allen) stick to mixed-doubles family comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Female of the Species | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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