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...mimeographed parody of the CRIMSON put out yesterday by Yearbook freshmen was university hailed last night as a great success. "The only thing I've read that's funnier is President Pusey's annual report," Dean Leighton said in an exclusive interview...
...Jack Benny, playing the part of the New York Giants' Shortstop Alvin Dark, co-starred with Giant Manager Leo Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary...
...story's golden opportunities are polished bright-some of the fad stuff could hardly be funnier-but too many are dipped in common brass. The tunes, all but one called Imagine, are routine musicomedy, and the lyrics are of the sort that rhyme "baritone" with "aware o'tone." Even so, as crackpots go, Louis Calhern is a Ming vase, and Evelyn Varden provides at least one fine moment. At the Mr. Universe contest, while Steve Reeves is straining to lift the crucial bar bell, she glares at Purdom and hisses: "Don't just sit there! Hold...
...Living It Up (Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin in more...
...either loses interest in the game or trips over his won teammates. Mr. Kaye and other producers of "Knock on Wood," while apparently aware of this fact, were too obeisant to the traditions of Plot to take full advantage of it. The result is a picture which is funnier than most, but never so funny as it could have been...