Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Byron Hendricks, who has a moustache, has brought in his Hollywood move dogs, three German shepherds, a poodle, and a wire-haired terrier. They all do various tricks like jumping on a moving horse and playing skip rope together. This is comic relief and the dogs are talented and very cute. The Valkyries, three cowgirls, do a Roman Jumping Act on five or six white horses, and then, after the calf-roping contest, it is time for The range Rider (Jack Mahoney) and his Saddle Pal (Dick West...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
...adults are sufficiently strong-fibered to watch these last two shows : Pinky Lee is an ex-burlesque comic who wears a funny hat and lisps a succession of feeble jokes (Sample: "You mean I've got to be a spy?" "Don't mince words." "Oh -a mince spy!''). Pinky laughs maniacally about the commercials and spends a good deal of time hugging reluctant children dragged from his studio audience. Howdy Doody is the sort of show that can be heard five miles on a clear day without benefit of transmitter. Currently, while its star Bob Smith...
...time a child is nine or ten, he is apt to find these shows "too babyish" for his more sophisticated taste and will turn to space serials, westerns or the shows borrowed from the comic strips, e.g., Superman and Joe Palooka. Today's children get a great amount of their TV entertainment from the old movies that enchanted their parents when they were moppets: most kid shows include a few reels of ancient Charlie Chase comedies or animated cartoons that date back to the 1920s. One cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, was made especially...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...