Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-page advertisements and the crowing of public-relations counsels will probably fail to convince American audiences that the three millions spent on "Caeser and Cleopatra" were worth it all. The film lacks a concentration of Shaw's humor and a unity of his ideas. On the whole, it is quite a tedious evening...
...other reasons, some heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
From now on, there was to be Dignity in radio humor. To insure it, gags would be censored as never before (see below). Nevertheless, radio would continue to devote more time to a bore and a nuisance-the audience-participation show-than to any other single item...
...mailed in each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can draw, Collier's finds only three good enough to buy.) Said mustached, soft-spoken Gurney Williams, 42: "The other day I found myself staring at the millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said one to the other: 'Where is everybody?' " Having seen at least 650 switches on this ancient since 1937, he shuddered...
...monthly called Gagazine (circ. 150), full of chitchat, advice and an occasional gag too rich for Collier's blood. His third updating of the famed Collier's Collects Its Wits album, I Meet Such People, will be out in the fall. Philadelphia's Satevepost sends its humor editor John Bailey to Manhattan each Wednesday to catch the parade. He pays about the same as Williams, has the same taboos (off-color gags, unkind cuts at the clergy...