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Henry Toledano's first one-man show in Manhattan last year had the critics comparing him to Goya and Ensor and brought customers on the run. In four weeks he sold 19 of the pen & ink drawings on display. Last week Toledano's second exhibition was drawing just as appreciative crowds to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the museum itself quickly bought one of the pictures...
...international language, but it is often spoken with strong national accents. In Manhattan last week, three artists from abroad were proving the point with one-man shows. All three speak impressively, but in strikingly different ways...
Bridgman's career in the study of high pressures represents one of the few examples in physics of a "one-man" development of an important research field. He has published many original measurements of physical properties, including those of gases, liquids, and solids...
Phil Silvers' one-man show is little more than a jumble of old burlesque routines connected by the barest of plots and a few undistinguished melodies. On film, even these overdone antics seem scarcely like parodies and painfully like the real thing. As an opener, four or five comedians plant themselves in front of one set and shout two-line jokes at each other for forty minutes. Top Banana rapidly sheds its appeal in the next two acts with variations on the same theme...
...Martin and The Stranger, is an oldtimer in films. He and the late Karl Dane were a popular brain 11. brawn Hollywood comedy team during the silent '205 (The Rookie, All at Sea). His acting career nipped by the transition to sound, Arthur turned promoter, ran a one-man advertising agency...