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Happily, something extra-and even, in Michael Kidd's case, extra-special-is sometimes supplied. If the Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

One obvious advantage of the musical version over its newspaper predecessor is its choreography. Easily handling a stage that is nearly always teeming with hillbillies or, on one occasion, Washington blue bloods, Michael Kidd continually constructs exuberant displays. With wit, ballet, acrobatics, and pantomime as tools, he creates a life...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Li'l Abner | 10/6/1956 | See Source »

BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR - 1956, edited by David C. Cooke (252 pp.; Dutfon; $2.95), indicates that the detective short story is undergoing a marked change and notable improvement. In the majority of these tales, whodunit is not the main point. Like all effective short stories, most of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

You Name It. In Graham, N.C., History Teacher Wilton Hawkins apologized under pressure to the city council for including in a final examination a multiple choice question: "The Graham City Council is largely composed of A) Idiots; B) Ignoramuses; C) Ne'er-Do-Wells; D) You call it, you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

"My strip has been well-received in translation," Capp explained. "They're even holding a Scherezade Hawkins Day in Portugal. But three times the English have risen as a man to protest against Li'l Abner. I know nothing about international affairs. Try my translators."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orderly Sanders Theatre Crowd Hears Capp, Kelly | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

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