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About five minutes after an off-Broadway play called The Apple, by Jack Gelber, begins, a character picks up a spatula, slings blobs of paint at a transparent plastic canvas, and then kneads the goo together with a rolling pin. Peering around this cunningly messy parody of abstract art with a confiding leer, the actor announces to the playgoers: "I'll admit why I'm here-therapy...
...goo to be true? No, the dear little beastie really lived, and in Edinburgh there stands a bronze statue of Bobby to prove it. In 1912 one Eleanor Atkinson made Bobby the dogtagonist of a novel, and now Walt Disney, who has released two other dog shows (101 Dalmatians and Nikki, Wild Dog of the North) so far in 1961, offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching...
...about the parade of commercials was that they had been made with so much more imagination, humor, photographic skill and musical talent than the programs they were designed to interrupt. The cinematography in a Prell shampoo blurb was visual poetry as it showed, with crystalline acuity, each gob of goo sinking into each coil of hair. There was the pathos of Willy Loman in a Metrecal pitch called the Lonely Man (commercials have titles these days), which showed a forlorn, overweight figure trudging through Central Park on a cheerless winter day while a narrator spoke of blubber in tones...
Three varsity performers set meet records in the goo. Ted Bailey won the hammer at 135 ft. 7 in. and Rick deLone threw the shot 52 ft. 7 1/4 in. for two meet marks. Captain Fred Howard valiantly slogged through the freshman track to a record 1:54.7 victory...
Back on the ground, Neddie the Nut finds other uses for the go goo. Is the college basketball squad losing the big game? The prof smears a little witch pitch on the squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity...