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...Broadway show with the longest run has the smallest cast. The cast of Comedy in Music consists of Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge. Last week Borge began his third year on Broadway, having long since broken all records for a one-man show in New York.* To celebrate his 731st performance, he threw a champagne party for the entire audience. At the intermission 120 magnums of French champagne and 50 trays of canapés appeared, along with 24 waiters from the Waldorf. With a bittersweet smile, Borge said, "This is the happiest and costliest evening of my life...
...could shape his style under the influence of the great French masters. Today a growing number of U.S. expatriates are coming home convinced that there is no longer much contemporary European painting worth the compliment of imitation. Most recent example: San Francisco-born Lawrence Calcagno, 39, whose first one-man show in New York was on exhibit last week at the Martha Jackson Gallery...
...One method of consolidating recent gains is for Congress to pass new laws regulating both itself and the Executive Department. If Congress would once and for all set legal curbs on one-man committees and bring the safeguards of the courtroom into the committeeroom, it could profit from the relaxed climate of opinion. In addition, a full review of the Administration's security system would go a long way toward ending that program's injustices...
McCarthy will testify presumably about the January, 1954 one-man hearing of the Senate Permanent Investigating Committee at which Kamin refused to answer questions concerning his former Communist associates...
...Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. Victor Borge in two one-man shows, Jack Benny in three original comedies, and Julie Harris in A Wind from the South. CBS viewers will also get a new cartoon series made by UPA, the producers of Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, the new Phil Silvers show, long film dramas by 20th Century...