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Died. Jimmy Savo (born Sava), 64, gifted vaudeville and Broadway pantomimist of the 19205 and 19305 who made famous his baggy pants and his expression of wile-eyed innocence; of a heart attack; in Terni, Italy. Breaking in as an amateur juggler before the age of ten, the Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor...
Holding forth as a $10-a-performance pantomimist in a Seattle jazz joint called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
...Shirley Jackson's coldly disturbing The Lottery. A play called The Gunfighter sends the average western up in gun smoke as it concentrates with the tension of High Noon on the 30 minutes that precede a professional killing. Always varied in mood, the series trips along with Burlesque Pantomimist Irving Hoffman in some splendidly kookie blackouts, stages a Frankie and Johnnie Ballet with Ballerina Melissa Hayden, and sits in on a wordless session with Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis...
...Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Dave King, a British pantomimist with style, wit, and a habit of breaking into agreeable song, has taken over for Milton Berle...
...last a kindly stranger invited him to share his turkey dinner (fastidious Freddie, presented with a finger bowl, carefully daubed his armpits). By the time bird-sick Freddie woke up in the hospital to find a beaming Florence Nightingale holding out a tray of turkey dinner to him. Pantomimist Skelton had put together perhaps the most rewarding half-hour of his TV career...