Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambitious, unsponsored, overcomplicated quiz show employing six experts (at least three too many) and an amiable moderator named Mike Wallace. Most of the opening show was devoted to explaining the game and rechecking the competitors' scores, and to a series of interminable charades acted to the hilt by Comic Joey Faye...
...show intends each week to salute a different U.S. city. The opening program was dedicated to Boston. On hand, presumably to hail their native city, were Cartoonist Al Capp, born in New Haven, Conn.; Singer Georgia Gibbs, born in Worcester, Mass.; Cinemactor Jeffrey Lynn, born in Auburn, Mass.; Comic Ezra Stone, born in New Bedford, Mass., and Composer (Syncopated Clock) Leroy Anderson, born across the Charles River in Cambridge. The talk between Faye, born in Elizabeth, La., and her guests was both literate and amusingly informative; the production slickly paced. This week: Chicago...
...Technicolored close-up confirms that Actress Young, 38, is one of the most rewardingly well-preserved sights in Hollywood. But what makes Half Angel especially disappointing is that it was written by Scripter Robert Riskin, whose horseplay with half-baked abnormal psychology is a sad comedown from such past comic successes as It Happened One Night and Mister...
Swamis with Sidelines. H. Hatterr, Desani's comic hero, is a born stooge and fall guy. Born illegitimate, "a love-brat, a mixed Oriental-Occidental sinfant," Hero Hatterr endures a series of misadventures which keep him low man on life's totem pole...
Exams were here again, and Scotch comic Harry Lauder came to cheer up the University. But an ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted, lent a sobering note to the proceedings, as the men of '26 sat down to spend the next two weeks writing in blue books. Widow Nolan's tutoring school did a flourishing business, and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes into the College past the watchful eyes of the deans. But the ordeal soon passed, and the Class of '26 could breath easily...