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...One-Man Tibet. Last week, at a Variety Club luncheon in London's Savoy Hotel, Cinemactor Guinness at last got his hands on the object that signifies supreme success in his profession. It was a moment that most actors would give their profiles to experience, a scene that almost any imaginable entertainer would play to the echo. Alec showed up 25 minutes late. The hotel doorman was somewhat upset at the sight of the filthy old tramp with the messy whiskers, paint-smeared jacket, soiled green flannel shirt and cracked shoes, but Guinness was able to establish his identity...
...one-man chorus, Joe will keep the doom-crying column's accent on tragedy. In leaving his brother with the gloomy mission, Stewart presented Joe last week with the original of a recent New Yorker cartoon showing two bearded zealots, one bearing a sign reading THE END OF THE WORLD is COMING! and saying earnestly to the other: "Have you noticed they're not laughing at us any more...
Victor Borge: To be excruciatingly funny, Pianist-Comic Victor Borge needs only to munch a sticky peanut-butter sandwich, or hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...
Paul Gibson, 50, a breezy, blond-mustached one-man show, sings no songs, spins no disks, reads no news, conducts no interviews, but manages somehow to keep 23 sponsors happily shelling out for his 13 mellifluous hours a week over Chicago's WBBM. A self-styled "word jockey," Gibson just talks, about anything from sex to Sputniks. After 16 glib years on radio, he is now also talking on TV. "Don't bother to look at me," he assures fans on his 45-minute daily early-morning show. "I'll tell you if something is on-camera...
Perhaps the strongest voice on the pro-Churchill side was that of James Rorimer. director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who broke his museum's general policy against one-man shows to schedule the exhibition. Writes Rorimer in his museum bulletin: "Think how eager we would be to see the paintings of an Alfred the Great, were they to be discovered tomorrow...