Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuck to the familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue about a lost bowling ball. Some other changes this month...
Antonio Frasconi, 34, seems a paradoxical fellow. He has happy brown eyes and a sad black mustache, an air of contentment and a sighing voice, a habit of absent-minded wandering and a craftsman's power of concentration. Says he: "An artist must be aware of the comic strip as well as of the serious side of life." Frasconi divides his time between Southern California (where "everything is wide open") and Manhattan ("it's all concentrated like a sardine can"). He sketches constantly in street and field "There is so much going on," he sighs, "so much material...
When they arrive, Sophie says, "How picturesque." Teresa adds, "And dirty. "Author Godden, tongue conspicuously in cheek, works every comic possibility in the confrontation of sentimental Sophie and the Kashmir peasants. When Sophie offers to give her servants a day off, they ask in astonishment, "But-for what?" and one of them adds crushingly, "Holidays should come from God." The whole social structure of the village is upset by Sophie's munificence, for though she considers herself poverty stricken, they are overwhelmed by her riches. Soon the situation turns ugly: she finds ground glass and belladonna in her food...
Children's Digest meets the blood & thunder of the comic books head-on by running full-color illustrated versions of stories and poems such as Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. Readers also get simple crossword puzzles with pictured hints, e.g., a drawing of a jam jar next to the definition. "It's good on bread." Parents' also puts out Piggety's ("The Children's Magazine of Animal Stories"), and for girls (ages eight to twelve) looking for a "service magazine," Polly Pigtails', which provides gentle tips for dieting under the title...
...quibble with Borge's performance is his references to Denmark's recent scientific contribution. Borge's is a highly specialized humor and allusions to Copenhagen's celebrity are not within his bounds. But for Borge's symphony of comic perfection, he can certainly be forgiven this minor false note...