Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic fault of "Alive and Kicking" is, not surprisingly, its material. In spite of the assistance of Milton Berle, Henry Morgan, and four other contributors to the sketches, there are no more than three or four genuinely funny moments all evening. The songs, written by a total of ten people, can be most charitably described as innocuous. Costumes and scenery are similarly undistinguished. Surely such weak efforts do not deserve a cast of 40 and a production costing thousands of dollars...
...booed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and warmly cheered U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. Except for these partisan outbursts, the teen-agers found the long speeches and static drama of the specially arranged telecast of United Nations in Action (weekdays, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m., CBS-TV) neither so funny as Milton Berle nor so exciting as baseball. "Of course," one 14-year-old conceded, "baseball is more known, because it's older than the United Nations...
Always Leave Them Laughing (Warner) is a schmalzy backstage film that has been knowingly tailored to Milton Berle's measure. Previous movies in which TV's favorite entertainer has appeared not only robbed him of his special brand of comedy but left most of Berle on the cutting-room floor. This attractively bedraggled production allows the Berle style full rein, for better or worse. As a result, Berle comes through as a powerfully unkempt personality-the prototype of the life-of-every-party...
...Milton Hoosle Club...
While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...