Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Comic Danny Thomas, with Guest Milton Berle...
G.B.S. might have been startled at some of Producer Pascal's casting: Television Comic Alan Young as Androcles and a professional football player and wrestler named Woody Strode as the lion. But Shaw would undoubtedly have been delighted with the painted backdrop for the Colosseum scenes. Two seats away from a beaming likeness of Pascal is a portrait of (George) Bernard Shaw himself...
...Skelton Show (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), the West Coast's second bid for nationwide attention, marks the first TV appearance of ex-burlesque Comic Red Skelton. The show opened and closed with Skelton flat on his back on the stage. In between, he got his head caught in a grand piano, beat his face with a microphone, shot himself in the foot. Making their TV debut, his rogue's gallery of radio characters (DeadEye, the cowboy; San Fernando Red, the crooked politician; Cauliflower McPugg, the punchdrunk fighter; Klem Kaddiddlehopper, the Irish tenor who is neither Irish...
English Novelist Joyce Cary has made a solid, belated U.S. reputation with some of the finest comic novels (e.g., The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised) in several decades. All of them have English settings. But Gary's own favorite among his books is Mister Johnson, a novel about an imaginative, teen-age native clerk in Nigeria who rollicks through life as if it were improvised African free verse...
...coat at the approach of the photographer. In the next aisle one can see the legs of a sleeping Tiger. The black arrow at the top points out the newspaper read by another student, while the man at the right is deeply engrossed in a pulp magazine or comic book...