Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political anecdotes, sidelights on such personages as Franklin Roosevelt ("He went back to the horse & buggy days in his shaving-he used a straight-edged razor"), and cheery comment on world affairs ("I think Korea is tragic but not insoluble"). For his first show, Barkley won high praise from Comic Jack Benny ("I think Barkley is naturally funny"). The Veep is ready to accept commercial sponsorship if he can find a sponsor who measures up to "the dignity of the position I held...
...mural, tracing the history of the theater in Mexico, showed Mexico's favorite comic, Cantinflas, in the cloak of Juan Diego - the 16th century Indian to whom, by pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared. A Roman Catholic group protested that this time Rivera had "exceeded the human limits of tolerance" by painting a leering Cantinflas as the symbol of "those who have turned their backs on Christ." Nothing of the sort, replied Rivera, with unctuous glee; his Cantinflas symbolized "the opposition of Mexico's poverty-stricken peasant masses to the country's 9,000 millionaires...
...Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 1:30 p.m., CBS-TV) comes smack in the middle of the day. It is also, he insists, "non-typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner or Pogo." Moore's formula is convincing sponsors as well as viewers: this week Masland rugs joined his six other advertisers (Kellogg, Deepfreeze, Duff...
...fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way. Heading the cast and gamely shouldering the burden are Yiddish Theater Comedian Menasha Skulnik and Broadway Veteran Richard Whorf. Skulnik, a mournful-looking, richly accented, frequently funny comic, handles the humor; Whorf, the drama. A married man who guiltily sins with a model, Whorf makes this part of his role as convincing in itself as it is out of key with the rest of the play...
...wants "always to be a little boy and to have fun":* Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...