Word: lilliputians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovable as a Saint Bernard. He worships his jungle mistress (Terry Moore) and obeys her every word. It is only when he becomes the target of a safari, headed by Robert Armstrong, that he begins to throw his weight around. Captured by Armstrong's cowboys, who look like Lilliputian daredevils mounted on pygmy horses, Joe is bundled off to Hollywood as a nightclub attraction...
...reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise-guy audience laughed fit to bust, either because it was hep to Hart's lilliputian libels, or because it wanted the fellow in the next seat to think it was. But the average gent and his missus are evidently more interested in laughter . . . Light Up the Sky comes through as a private show-business joke...
Pocket-Size Dramatics. Televised plays are often more embarrassing than entertaining. NBC's Kraft Theater and Theatre Guild are the best; the directors, after a few cluttered mishaps, have wisely stopped trying to paint extravaganzas on their Lilliputian canvas. The intimate kind of show they settled for hardly rivals the razzle-dazzle-of Hollywood, but it fits neatly between the living-room sofa and the book case. One recent success: Great Catherine, with Gertrude Lawrence, who back in 1938 appeared in the first televersion of a Broadway play (Susan and God). CBS, screening digests of current Broadway hits, made...
...heart of an electrical storm. "After all," he explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...
...equipment with one exception is scaled down to the proper size for the inhabitants of the Lilliputian world. Chairs, tables, picture heights, and playground slides all conform to the maximum measurements for the various age levels...