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Jennie, with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, is based on the career of Actress Laurette Tay lor. As the young Laurette, Mary Mar tin puts on one of her best and funniest performances, and Laurette's barnstorming early appearances in all manner of creaking melodramas are made-to-order for Mary's comic talents. She plays a frontier mother rescuing her child from a grizzly bear, warbles a ditty from a torture wheel, and as a harem wife be wails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road: Summer Debuts | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...Bald Soprano. Sometimes the dialogue falls flat: "I was trying to catch a fly." "Why?" "Why? Would you have me catch a cold instead?" But more often it is mildly amusing, as when one of the men logically demonstrates that the tree is not a tree. The funniest moment in the play, though, is not verbal at all; it comes when the other man is unable...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 'By The Sea' at the Ex | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

Murder at the Gallop. Dewlaps aflap, flanks armored in stoutest tweeds, Margaret Rutherford rides into battle against crime - murder most foul. As Agatha Christie's indomitable Miss Marple, she proves once again that she may well be the funniest woman alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 19, 1963 | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Murder at the Gallop. Dewlaps aflap, flanks armored in stoutest tweeds, Margaret Rutherford rides into battle against crime-murder most foul. Once again she plays Agatha Christie's indomitable Miss Marple, and once again she proves that she may well be the funniest woman alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 12, 1963 | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...dear old dog, as connoisseurs of screen comedy will quickly surmise, is Britain's Margaret Rutherford (TIME, May 24), a 71-year-old crock of charm who, pound for pound, is possibly the funniest woman alive. In Gallop, the film version of an Agatha Christie thriller called After the Funeral, Actress Rutherford once more portrays Miss Jane Marple, a dotty old dame with a weakness for cookies and a nose for blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rutherford Rides Again | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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