Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer TV replacements, one new show last week was giving televiewers a pleasant tingling in the funny bone. The program: Mr. Peepers (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC), a weekly half hour devoted to the mild misadventures of a frail, bespectacled little high-school science teacher, played by Funnyman Wally Cox...
Such goings-on, shrewdly and precisely tied together, are mainly the work of Scripter David Swift and Director James Sheldon. But it is 27-year-old Wally Cox himself who gives the show its real flavor. Detroit-born Wally Cox fits naturally into Teacher Peepers' shoes. When he moved to Manhattan in 1942, he enrolled at City College for a botany course. "I was a flower-watcher," he says. "I still am, for that matter, but I found I didn't care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army...
...Unwanted Rosebush. Finally, says Cox, "I started applying common sense to my pursuits." In 1948, he joined a Greenwich Village dramatics group. It soon folded, but his director encouraged him to go on alone. Cox polished up a few comic monologues, got a nightclub job, was soon working on radio & TV as well...
...idea of universality pushes out most strongly in Cox's abstractions. He paints what he calls "basics," e.g., canvases combining such forms as rocks and eggs, which offer contrast in texture. ("Eggs," he says, "have a softness and smoothness and at the same time a nervous feeling.") He is also fond of beach still lifes, in which he tries for harmonies of color, e.g., the whites of clamshells, the browns of crabs. Each is an experiment in style and technique. In a painting called Dew, he set pastel droplets on a gauzelike spiderweb; in another, he suspended a flowering...
Last week Gardner Cox himself was hidden away on an island off the Maine coast, busy with portraits and abstractions, recording trials & errors in his journal. His wife and four children were with him, and, when their father could pry them away from the sailboat races, they sat for more portraits. Fee: 60? an hour, with deductions of a cent a minute for wriggling...