Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the triangle-on-a-desert-island situation favored by magazine cartoonists. Levin's contribution, the absence of water, adds to the situation's comic possibilities. And except for the final fifteen or so minutes of the play, these possibilities are fairly well explored...
...shows have gone downstream this spring in large numbers, but the new ones that will replace them next season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks...
...comic being offered to U.S. dailies may not be enjoyed very much by the adult occupants at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. But Miss Caroline-the story in single cartoon panels of a little girl who lives in a big white house-has already been sold to 13 dailies,* and will doubtless pick up more before its scheduled debut in comic pages in November...
...complicated plot revolves around those old comic motifs, dissipation, insanity and betrayal. There are also ghosts. In the central role of Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, who disguises himself as a simple farmer to escape the curse on his family, tenor Jan Ewing gave an inspired performance. It may be that his humor lies a good deal in the direction of mugging, but it is muggery of a very high order indeed. As Dick Dauntless, his nautical foster brother, Peter Larson overcame a vague singing voice by the force of his agile personality. His first act hornpipe was a show stopper...
...like a rabid gnome, Margie Hertz in the part of Mad Margaret, the village looney, almost stole the show. It was a joy to watch the diminutive Miss Hertz sprinting purposefully through a forest of knees in the second act patter trio. With a lovely soprano voice and superb comic timing Kathleen Campbell played a village beauty, Rose Maybud-"sweet Rose Maybud," as she often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with a Maiden At Prayer expression transfixing her lovely...