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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the individual performances in this production are memorable, especially those of Miss Dunbar and Mr. Hill, the large credit for its overall excellence belongs with the director. He gives the play unity, motion, and best of all, the sense so often lost that the actors really are speaking to each other--the essence of drama...
...Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser (a Yiddish version). Disk jockeys all over the country have invited their listeners to draw the Purple People Eater (both the jockeys and listeners seemed to miss the fine point that the People Eater is not really purple but merely an eater of purple people). Composer Wooley seemed a little dazed by it all. "The Purple People Eater lives at my house," he told an interviewer last week. "Hell, he bought the house...
...reading primer ("Easy little steps for muddy little feet") is completely Mad: "My teacher is Miss Furd. I tell the school board Miss Furd is a Commie. Miss Furd is through in this town . . . This is Bobby Smith. He is our playmate. Bobby sells reefers to the other children in school...
Married. Jack Webb, 37, petroform cinemactor (The D.I.), creator and star of radio and TV's Dragnet: and Jackie Loughery (rhymes with Crockery), 28, Flatbush-born Miss United States of 1952, now a TV and cinema starlet; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress-Songstress Julie [Cry Me a River] London); in Van Nuys, Calif...
...army and in Transylvania College (Lexington, Ky.), Ford took his troubles to Psychology Professor Elmer Snoddy. Together they rapped tables, and Ford soon felt himself in his spiritual talents to be one with "Wesley, Luther, Swedenborg, Dwight Moody, not to overlook a high proportion of the saints." Miss Gertrude Tubby, secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, encouraged the "young and eager psychic," and soon Ford was in London, way beyond the league of Snoddy, Tubby or even Moody. One night, several hundred pounds sterling worth of gems manifested themselves at a seance patronized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...