Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays that are either new, or outside of the much done realistic tradition, the whole company is forced to create rather than mimic. If Harvard becomes known for a theatre atmosphere that demands initiative and creative ability it will sooner become respected than groups that continue to turn out replicas of Broadway...
Anna Russell and Her Little Show was built around an English mimic of various styles of singing and pianoplaying. Diligent, perceptive, unfunny, Actress Russell was like a perfume that had every merit except fragrance...
...bills, spilled coins, dropped when he returned from his walk, strew the table at his side. His eyes light up - he has decided to needle one of those present. His tongue is sharp and witty, and he talks fast, sometimes out of the side of his mouth, with a mimic's art and the insistence of a barker...
...Skelton entertained a small but appreciative audience of 54 passengers, including eleven British youngsters homeward bound from the Middle East. The curtain went up when two of the four engines conked out over the Alps. While the third engine sputtered, the fascinated moppets happily watched the red-haired mimic go through 35 minutes of juggling, shadow-boxing and pantomime gags until the plane made an emergency landing in Lyon...
When he used to mimic Harold Ross, he even looked like Ross, an incredible accomplishment...