Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is Danny Kaye (of Broadway's Lady in the Dark and Let's Face It), making his screen debut. Kaye's mimicry, patter and general daftness are as deft as a surgeon's incision...
...makes out. The audience is encouraged to heckle Baker and the contestant. If the audience thinks the contestant is not equal to, say, the $32 question, they warn him to pocket his money and leave, chanting: "You'll be sorry." Such challenges Baker must meet with his unrehearsed patter out of years of experience (beginning in Philadelphia, much of it in vaudeville...
Block's chief job at present-aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
Joseph Stalin suddenly got a patter of backslaps from a number of thoughtful U.S. citizens: two men in swampy Vermilion Parish, La. took out a $25 war bond in his name, planned to send it to him; the residents of Newton, Mass, sent $1,300 worth of bonds to him "and the Russian people"; and 76-year-old S. Kent Costikyan, Manhattan's rug king, proposed in a letter to the New York Times that somebody give him some sort of honorary degree...
...line of facile patter Charlie clicks rabbits out of his green felt hat, has his gallery alternately rolling in the aisles and sitting on the edges of their seats. Typical crack out of his million-gag grab bag (after a difficult miss): "Gentlemen, you have just seen me tie the great Willie Hoppe. He can't make that shot either." Typical sample (named "Over the Top") from his 600 trick-shot repertoire: after making two cushions, the cue ball jumps up on the wooden rail, rolls along its full length, drops off to complete a perfect around-the-table...