Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...
Aside from Misses Walker and Essen, the cast includes Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce, Hank Ladd, and Johnny Coy, all of whom possess a variety of entertaining talents. "Along Fifth Avenue" is just one more of those uneven affairs; Nancy Walker is responsible for what smooth, bright spots there are, but the rest of its is not unpleasant...
...much the rule with intimate revues, Lend an Ear is almost completely new faces and unknown names. But a number of these-as is pretty much the rule, too, when the revues are any good-may before long be pleasantly familiar. Among the others: Yvonne Adair, George Hall and Carol Channing, a large doll-eyed blonde who can be almost spectacularly funny...
Along with Silent Night, Holy Night and 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, the U.S. last week was hearing a new kind of Christmas carol-the daffy, bell-ringing, horn-honking, falsetto-voiced Spike Jones kind. Out only six weeks, a new record by Spike Jones & his City Slickers (recorded in 1947, before the Petrillo ban) was already sixth on the hit parade. Its title: All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth...
Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Dennis King as Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol...