Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most in evidence and least in the way is Comic Milton Berle (Earl Carroll's Vanities, See My Lawyer), whose patter is sometimes funny, though his aversion to new jokes is hardly an asset. The screen's best deadpan butler, Arthur Treacher, buttles his way through a succession of poor skits. With finely formed, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey, the Follies does a little girl-glorifying, but in general the show lacks oomph as well...
Frolic is produced in "circumstances that would paralyze most radio performers. Gentile & Binge invent their patter as they go along. The studio is just across the hall from the elevator, and people constantly pop in to ask the way to the manager's office, the men's room, etc. Some get yanked right into the program. So do many night-shift workers who drop in for laughs in the early morning. President Alexander Grant Ruthven of the University of Michigan, a devoted listener, once asked the boys to find a horse which had strayed from his stable. They...
...have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...
Malarkey's malodorous patter is pounded out by swarthy Herbert Little Jr., onetime health-journal editor, author of NBC's soapy The O'Neills, who sired Malarkey with Griggs last spring in a pet over the sameness of radio's patriotic messages. The Office of War Information decided last fortnight that Malarkey was sufficiently obnoxious to deserve a wider audience. He will soon be drawn as a cartoon character, under OWI auspices...
...needed power of discrimination between the excellence of some contemporary authors, the hearty good intentions of others, and the mere jingoistic opportunism of still others. In Writers in Crisis ($3) Maxwell Geismar acutely dissects the U.S. writers of the past two decades, but keeps up a kind of smart patter which is apt to put off the more intelligent of his readers...