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...could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard and Eddie Mayehoff, handling the routines...
With anything less than the Messrs. Ritchard and Mayehoff, all this would be no better show business than it is playwriting. But Mayehoff has no equal at harrumphing or at jerking his head, at skinning a cliché or stuffing a shirt or making very little sound like even less. And no one has quite the lost-in-a-balloon aplomb or the Mad-King-of-Bavaria hauteur of Cyril Ritchard. At the same time no one knows more surefire tricks. Ritchard will do as many absurd and outrageous things to keep an audience amused as a desperate father will...
...sleep, and what he reads all day he dreams all night-mostly about Zuba, a girl with three eyes, and something called Vincent the Vulture. Dean, a commercial artist, makes illustrations of Jerry's somnolo-quies, and sells them to a well-known pulp publisher (Eddie Mayehoff) for buckets of blood money, which the boys spend on two girls (Shirley MacLaine and Dorothy Malone). The girls may be hard for the moviegoer to identify because the camera seldom gets around to looking at their faces...
...Chrysler gave its viewers almost a solid hour of commercial as it unveiled an endless succession of Plymouths, Dodges, DeSotos, Chryslers. This, an announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster...
That's My Boy (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Eddie Mayehoff as Jarrin' Jack Jackson, the all-America has-been...