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Trend setters in search of trends to set have a tough time of it with women's fashions. Sometimes the group will go along with the gag (pale, pale lipstick), sometimes not (the trapeze line). A marvelously effective trend often consists simply in reviving something old and already a proven success-like the one-piece tank suit. But best of all is the trend that never quite was a trend, the standby dress that has hung there in the back of the closet for years, always ready to be pulled out and made a fad of. This year, finally...
...melancholy on Broadway. His wife has just told him that in advanced middle age, he is about to enter second fatherhood. Ford trumpets his dismay: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott. Abbott has willing and extremely winning helpers. As Ford's wife, constant listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from...
...Broadway season needs at least one show like Never Too Late. Probably no more than one, but one at any rate. For Never Too Late is one of your ungainly, amateurish, American homely-grown situation comedies built entirely out of comfortably familiar set-em-up-and-knock-em-down gag lines and plenty of old-fashioned good clean honest dirt...
...toastmaster began the evening with a typical toastmaster's gag: "Before I cut my throat . . ." Not one of the 200 special guests interrupted him with a laugh. Not one of them could. Actor William Gargan was playing toastmaster in Memphis for the International Association of Laryngectomees-people who have lost their larynges to cancer. Their laughter was muted to a barely audible chuckle...
...even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts emphasized the human touch; the releases said that Popovich had christened his booster rocket Lastochka (The Swallow) and that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev's fellow cosmonauts, as a gag, slipped a sheet of jokes into his logbook before takeoff; the P.R. men announced that Popovich during his orbits was fondling a little cloth picture of Lenin as a child. In Moscow, government flacks passed out banners and cosmonaut photo placards for the jubilant throngs to wave in Red Square...