Word: comics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poured billions overseas to rebuild the industrial nations and finance the undeveloped, while many a rebuilt, well-financed country has maintained tariff walls against U.S. goods or tight controls on dollar purchases. Samples: Britain still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some imports from the U.S. even when U.S. prices are cheaper. Last week...
...change, however, the first couple of acts abound in comedy: not bad stuff, though nothing a real comic dramatist need be particularly proud of, and spoiled because the characters find it funnier than the audience...
...comic scenes center around Josie-the-slattern's rascally old Irish father, who is played by Arthur Malet with a nicely integrated and polished collection of mannerisms indicating rascality and eld. It would be a brilliant performance, except that it is a bit too carefully styled and a bit too lovable to be thoroughly at home in O'Neill's harshly realistic play. Moreover--unaccountably, in view of his obvious skills--Mr. Malet is not very funny...
...Catch Stars. To get his star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford...
...Betty Button Show (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Betty and her comic guest, Jules Munshin, in a musical show called Who Killed Vaudeville...