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Such humor is not inherent in the cartoon preceeding the main show and arrival ten minutes late is advisable. If the Brattle insists on showing only '"shuddering losers" as short subjects, it might better fill the time unused by the feature with a community sing. Follow the bouncing ball...
...Venice grand prize went to an Italian cartoon commercial, "All Over the World"-a wild melange of cloaked Parisian policemen, covered wagons in the American West, a sexy Brazilian samba dancer, remorseless Russians firing a dog-filled Sputnik into space, and finally Italy, emerging in a burst of sun and sea. Sponsor: "Stock" Brandy...
...only two minor prizes: for an animated-cartoon dialogue between a cat and a lion extolling Calo Cat Food and for a series of still pictures backed up by a sophisticated ballad ("Some girls think summer means stockings goodbye. If that's your trick you're an unhip chick") plugging Chemstrand nylons. Unfortunately for U.S. admen, their prize TV pitchmen were not entered in the Venice competition. Explained Ray Goulding, who plays Bert Piel: "They don't dig beer over there. And it's hard to get a head on a bottle of Chianti...
Kibitzers' Drumfire. As Wang and Beam made their moves-stopping after each one to consult their superiors in Peking and Washington-kibitzers round the world kept up a drumfire of advice, exhortation and complaint (see cartoon). Keenly aware that the only bargaining counter which the U.S. had to offer was a change in the status of the offshore islands, Chinese Nationalist leaders regarded the Warsaw talks with undisguised alarm and despondency. In Taipei Nationalist Premier Chen Cheng implicitly warned the U.S. that his country would not be a party to any such bargain. Said Chen: "We will defend Quemoy...
Lomax aired his theories on England's highbrow Third Programme in one of the most popular series in BBC history (commemorated by Punch in a cartoon of a down-at-the-mouth hillbilly singing: "I've got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-around-to-record-me blues"). Now back in the U.S., Lomax would like to "turn the loudspeakers around" and convert Americans from a nation of audiophiles into folk performers. An eminently folksy sound-representing, according to Lomax, the "furthest intrusion of Negro folksong into U.S. pop music: rock 'n' roll...