Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday, April 6 NBC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier is host of the Harry Belafonte production "A Time for Laughter," which flashes back through 100 years of bittersweet Negro humor. Comedy sketches and songs by Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Godfrey Cambridge...
Lessinger is excellent, but it is by no means a one-man evening. To an electric guitar throbbing out Beatles music, Colin Godfrey and Donna Jo Napoli give the excitement and pain of two bodies so close that they almost touch, much touch, but don't. As their hands near each other, they shiver with the electricity, then break away. The number falls just short of brilliance. At the last moment, the bodies intertwine, but the atmosphere is drained as the piece drags on a few seconds too long...
Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...BERTHA GODFREY is a quick-tempered housewife from Tallapoosa Co., Ala. When a white woman's car smashed into hers and the police chief who investigated the accident said it was her fault, she snapped at him, "Just because I'm a Negro woman you want to treat me like this...
...wise for Negroes to speak harshly to police chiefs in rural Alabama. Mrs. Godrey faced certain conviction and, at the very least, a stiff fine for her folly. But a remarkable thing happened when she came to trial. Probate Judge Woodrow Barnes led the police chief and Mrs. Godfrey into his chambers at the Tallapoosa Co. courthouse, closed the door, and told them he was dismissing the case to avoid untoward publicity. A reporter had shown...