Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GODFREY RUSSELL VICK, K.T.Q.C...
...first time since his Texaco Star Theater went on the air in 1948, Milton Berle slipped from his No. 1 TV rating for three weeks in a row. The new champion: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, with 58% of the viewing audience. Adding insult to injury, Arthur Godfrey & His Friends won the No. 2 spot, with 55.8%. Berle (52.6%) is in third place, pressed closely by The Red Skelton Show...
...their admirable virtues; the stars have their expected lure. But this is no such event as was Olivier's Oedipus Rex on his last visit to Broadway. And far from blotting out a recent Caesar on Broadway (with Cedric Hardwicke and Lilli Palmer) or a recent Antony (with Godfrey Tearle and Katharine Cornell), the present productions will be constantly-and not always favorably -compared to the earlier ones. What is really important is doing two such plays together. Shaw's emerges as so good that what should be stressed is how vividly it differs from Shakespeare...
Understandably, the Oliviers' Antony is a high-romantic one, less of the world than of the world-well-lost. Olivier as Antony is impulsive, audacious, angry, half-aging lion and half-untamed whelp; he is not-as Godfrey Tearle was so brilliantly-an assured leader with the weakened fiber and amorous susceptibilities of late middle age. As Antony, Olivier is a good actor, but not the architect of a commanding role. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is an all-too-believable enchantress -mercurial, irresistible, even royal; only not of Shakespearean depth and stature. Actress Leigh mistakes mere emotionalism...
Slow Poke (Arthur Godfrey; Columbia), a fast-moving hillbilly song about a girl (or a fellow) with all the time in the world. A surprisingly straightforward Godfrey version of a number that is breaking out all over the bestseller lists, and climbing hard...