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Into each of these lives plummets a fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...
...cast for both Trial and Pinafore was essentially the same. Morgan Wheelock was the judge, "and a good judge, too." He has mastered the difficult art of patter singing, and it is a pity he did not take the patter role in Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph was played by Jeffery Lewins; he has a fine manner but lacks the driving acidity of tone the patter songs demand. He was more successful speaking than singing...
...Hemo the Magnificent), Producer-Director Frank Capra again trotted out entertainment as the handmaiden of education. Before a panel of Dostoevsky, Dickens and Poe, played by Bil Baird puppets, Dr. Research (Dr. Frank Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar...
...Kathryn Murray, 50, tops them all. Not content with behind-the-scenes power, Mrs. Murray plunged into TV herself as M.C. of her husband's show, The Arthur Murray Party. Without a smidgen of experience as an entertainer, she tried her hand at songs, dances, fancy patter, pantomime, knockabout acrobatics. The result is even more phenomenal: in seven years Kathryn and the show have become such hardy TV perennials that the bills are now footed by a sponsor she is not married...
Even when attempting coherency, however, the style in 321 is in most cases lamentable and occassionally nauseating. It plumments to its nadir of tired Timeiness in the section on polls. in which Seniors are told that they can hear "the pitter-patter of little feet...in the near distance" and that they are thirteen percent directed by "libidinous impulses, another word for raw sex." This sort of childishness suggests that the Yearbookmen are not really quite sure for whom they are writing. Indeed, it is a problem whether they should aim at the Senior or at Mother. But in either...