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...Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...advertisers, who generally get blamed for low entertainment standards, seemed more worried than the TV executives about program quality. Said Kraft Foods' Advertising Manager John McLaughlin: "I have heard [TV] defined as movies twelve years old for an audience twelve years old . . . That is not a funny gag and we know it is not a fair definition of television. It is our job to see that it never becomes an accurate...
Tenor Melchior promptly quit and wound up his 24 years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...
...play has some funny lines, but not many; and some nice performances, especially Dauphin's. The outstanding thing about it is its phenomenal memory: it exploits every type of gag, farce twist or comedy situation that ever made good in the past. It is one more of the Rodgers & Hammerstein-produced hits (John Loves Mary, Happy Birthday) that give the obvious and the mediocre a finishing-school education, and that hug a safe, tried formula on the theory of nothing venture, nothing lose...