Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results were not always sidesplitting. Martha Raye proved that slapstick can be tasteless with an interminable skit that required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie...
...fire, in addition to the normal chores of musical comedy. He does these well, but it is difficult to evaluate his interpretation because Reuben's character is left so vague and undefined. Evelyn Lear as his girl gives a hrikingly uneven performance at various times, she manages to resemble Martha Raye, June Allyson, and Joan Crawford. Kaye Ballard, the brilliant comedienne of The Golden Apple, suffers most from the sparseness of the material. She performs her three songs with gusto and precision, and might have lifted the show far above its present level, but her part is simply too small...
...Today a growing number of U.S. expatriates are coming home convinced that there is no longer much contemporary European painting worth the compliment of imitation. Most recent example: San Francisco-born Lawrence Calcagno, 39, whose first one-man show in New York was on exhibit last week at the Martha Jackson Gallery...
...Martha Raye Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Douglas Fairbanks...
...house like a filthy remark through a roomful of friends; the change in the air is so sharp it can almost be smelled. The householder (Fredric March), a middle-aged department-store executive, gets home from work to find Bogart pointing a gun at the head of his wife (Martha Scott). His teen-age daughter (Mary Murphy) and ten-year-old son (Richard Ever) are held captive, too. "You pull anything," Bogart purrs, "I'll let you sit and watch me kick the kid's face...