Word: mugger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLACK AND THE RED, by Elliot Paul (277 pp.; Random House; $2.75), is a Homer Evans mystery by the author of The Mysterious Mickey Finn and Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre. It is for longtime Elliot Paul fans only; latecomers who are merely looking for a story are likely to bog down in the aggressive whimsy and the interminable dissertations on art, sex and French cooking...
Yale men need no yonger pad the streets of defenseless, helpless prey to any passing mugger...
Star of the Family (Sun., 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV), which appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...
...consultants. By the time he was ready to wind up the program with a familiar traveling salesman version of Carmen, Allen had brought on Guest Stars Sono Osato, Risë Stevens and Monty Woolley, had put on half a dozen sly lampoons and proved himself as fine a mugger as he is an ad-libber...
...Hartmans, of course, are capable of surmounting even poor material. Grace, as a garrulous feather-brained nincompoop, is always amusing. Paul Hartman says very little, but he does carry off honors for being the most energetic mugger, as well as the most hilariously ungraceful entertainer on Broadway. When the two get together to parody the modern dance ("Symbol of Fire") the result is most definitely worth seeing...