Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most outstanding thing about the production is its economy of scenery. The action all takes place within a police station, and the motley group of characters who wander in and out afford excellent comic relief between the more dramatic scenes. Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman, particularly, are exceptional as a frightened shop-lifter and a paranoiac burglar up for life...
...fashioned idea that everyone should keep 'abreast of the times' apparently has lost much of its earlier appeal." But Gallup raised a pertinent question for the press. Have editors "lost a sense of mission" and begun to worry too much, he asked, "about having the most popular comic strips and the most complete sports pages, and too little about keeping their readers interested in, and informed about, the important problems...
...some good writing, but suffers even more from lack of sensibility and of art than from lack of drama. It has snatches of Shavian cleverness jostling scraps of Socratic wisdom and ponderous suggestions of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. A dramatically pointless harlot tags after a comic-strip King of Sparta; and in direct competition with perhaps the most nobly serene death scene in history, Anderson introduces one all his own. Dramatists rightly take liberties; but Drinkwater did not have Lincoln assassinated at Gettysburg, and Shaw refrained from having Joan devoured by lions...
Will Rogers (Tues. &Thurs., 5:55p.m., ABC) is a five-minute, recorded echo of the homespun comic who died in 1935. The opening show, timed to the new tax rise, featured Rogers on taxes. Sample: "There's no income tax in Russia-but there's no income, either...
...Kelly's improvements on the comic strip routine is to run two stories in each strip. While the characters are following one in Kelly's own brand of swamp talk, they act out another. The first provides the thread of a series from strip to strip, and the second gives a complete tale all in one strip...