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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the confidence and skill of a high-wire cyclist, Max Liebman each week whips together a 28-man, 1½ hour musical revue called Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV). This week, 48-year-old Producer-Director Liebman displays his real virtuosity by riding two vehicles at once: he is putting on another 1½-hour musical, the Easter special Star-Spangled Revue (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV), sponsored by Frigidaire and featuring Bob Hope, Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plus his own company...
SLEEP TILL NOON (191 pp.) - Max Shulman-Doubleday...
...When Max Shulman was editor of Ski-U-Mah, then the humor magazine of the University of Minnesota, he was one of a group of aspiring authors who showed their pieces to Novelist Sinclair Lewis, and asked the great man's advice. Lewis' advice: first go to work in a grocery store. Max had already worked in a grocery store; he sat down and wrote a book...
Barefoot Boy with Cheek was a remarkably sustained example of the kind of homely slapstick that gets a big laugh in the freshman dormitories. It sold 33.000 copies (and 220,000 reprints), and made Max, at 24, a very big yuk in the laugh trade. The Feather Merchants (1944) and The Zebra Derby (1946) did even better. On the dust jacket of Max's fourth book, Sleep Till Noon, no less an authority than Playwright George Abbott has no hesitation about calling Max a humorist "who seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais...
...well as his distance from Swift and Rabelais. Advertised as "a roaring burlesque of middle-class morality," it is actually an aimless gaggle of giggles about a bus boy who married money. At the end, with a penetration more like Jack Homer's than Dean Swift's, Max sticks in his thumb and pulls out a withered old prune for his readers' delectation. Money, he warns archly, corrupts...