Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
Morgan still thinks of himself as unemployed. "Radio is my hobby. I don't have a vocation." Only his worst humor is broadcast, he says. "There aren't more than 3,500 people who can understand the good stuff. Most people don't understand anything. There are too few people as intelligent as I am." He adds: "I'm intelligent, but misguided. If I had any real talent, I'd go straight...
...lost something, of course; but much of its humor still clicked and much of its melodrama still crackled. It caught the atmosphere of a press room in the days when all reporters were cynics and when Chicago's chief industry was crime. Its profanity had not dated, though it no longer seemed daring...
...book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris emerges Tauber's fine tenor voice...
...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...