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...Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from children and their mothers," might...
Last winter they decided to try for full-time work at Manhattan's Village Vanguard, where other folk singers (Richard Dyer-Bennett, Burl Ives and Josh White) got their start. After a one-night trial, they got a two-week contract at $50 a head, stayed for six months. Singing loud & clear or sweet & low, they found they could get noisy nightclubbers to quiet down for everything from Southern work songs and African chants to Indonesian lullabies and mountain hymns...
Following the politicians, Chamber of Commerce officials thanked unheard of committees and unheard of committee heads for "splendid efforts;" the crowd applauded politely, and dwindled. People perked up, though, when Burl Ives appeared to banjo "The Blue Tail Fly," and they joined in the "cracked corn" chorus. Then the dinner chairman arose and introduced a bagpipe band. Cranced necks and scampering children greeted it with curiosity; but when it played "Auld Lang Syne" only a few voices followed the chairman's plea for song. Instead, most people started moving away...
...performances, beginning with Maurice Evans' reciting of a sprightly modern prologue. As Tony Lumpkin, the celebrated booby of the piece, Ezra (Henry Aldrich) Stone is amusing but cannot avoid the booby trap of badly overdoing things. Celeste Holm and Brian Aherne are an engaging pair of lovers, and Burl Ives a good solid 18th Century father. Almost everybody, indeed, acts agreeably; the hitch is that virtually no two people act in the same style...
...from shouted requests, included most of the old favorites such as "Foggy Foggy Dew," "The Blue Tail Fly," and so forth. If there weren't rules against giving a concert on the Lord's Day in this state, I am sure the recital would have lasted into the morning. Burl Ives and the audience were enjoying themselves that much...