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...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
Bachelor of Music. Ernesto Lecuona is a quiet citizen who likes to wear fine clothes-in which, however, he looks like Comedian Zero Mostel. He says he dislikes nightclubs, but he makes the Manhattan rounds with systematic regularity. He also visits churches and museums. The seldom-visited place he calls home is a finca (farm) about 40 minutes outside Havana where he has a nine-room house surrounded with tropical fruit trees, ten dogs and a large assortment of hogs, cattle and horses...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...
Fortnight ago Basin Street added a comedian, Sam ("Zero") Mostel, a 27-year-old six-footer barely out of his swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...
With rant, doubletalk and repetitious exaggeration, Mostel achieves a weirdly intelligent satire. His first efforts for Basin Street pleased the studio audience more than they did radio listeners, but Mostel, new to the microphone, last week reduced his dependence on pantomime. Some of his established impersonations: an isolationist Senator ("What the hell was Hawaii doing in the Pacific?"); Charles Boyer cooing to Hedy Lamarr ; Hitler explaining his withdrawal from Russia...