Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the breakup of the stage & screen team of the Marx Brothers (The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera), Groucho was on & off radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...Halloween-masked men forced their way into the Glass Hall Studies of WHBS, the Business School radio station, at 9 p.m. last night and held an announcer and technician powerless to stop them as they broadcast ad lib for five minutes-but over a dead mike...
...starting lineups: HARVARD TUFTS Batchelder g Borghi Drake rfb Herold Harrop lib Dybiec Bell rhb Stauffer Pantaleoni chb O'Neill Miller ihb Glaffanos Weiss il Cratty Drehmel ir Morris Harvey ol Moulton Wolf or Clifford Spivak cf Bennett
With well-paced acts, some high-level ad-lib talk and a genial approach, This Is Broadway last week was one of the first of the summer TV sustaining shows to nab a fall sponsor-AVCO's Crosley Division (radios & TV sets). Though gratified by the windfall, Fadiman (who had been against the serious approach from the beginning) had urged all along that Broadway be changed from an hour-long show to its present 30 minutes. "One thing about this show," he once mused, "it's delightfully improvable...
...fine form, Bryant missed only one entrance cue: between scenes he went aft to inspect his catfish line, and found it snagged. After wading in to pull it clear, he returned to the stage muddied and breathless in time to ad-lib to King Claudius : "I just caught the damndest, biggest fish...