Word: pattering
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...lacks even the tuneful amiability of his last show. Silk Stockings, you will soon find, lacks just about everything except some of that splendor which Mielziner imparts to any setting. Porter's ballads are so similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount batten in satin and silk, silk and satin." But he has done better than that...
There were famous names among the 104, including daughters of Laurance Rockefeller, Irving Berlin and Howard Cullman, and some who were unknown beyond the limits of Scarsdale and Greenwich (one debutante came all the way from Minneapolis). Most were greeted with a proud, polite pitter-patter of applause from their parents' boxes or tables; others got ovations. When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped...
...Sugar & Caustic. Fifteen years in the industry have honed Bill Cullen to the supersharpness required of a good M.C. His patter is sometimes irrelevant, but it is always fast; his smile gleams as brightly as the lens of his eyeglasses; and, whatever else may happen, he is never speechless. In making his way up to a top network job, 34-year-old Bill Cullen has closely analyzed his profession and decided that there are three kinds of masters of ceremonies: "There's the Drooler, who sugars out 'God bless you and that sort of stuff; there...
...producer decided to put him on the air. Misunderstanding the offer, Liberace thought he was being hired for a cooking program (he is a devoted amateur cook and often used to whip up a few cakes for his friends). But his piano and patter act was an instant TV hit. His first sponsor : the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Explains an admirer: "Banks are always nice to old ladies. So is Liberace...
...cast, decked in outlandish costumes mocking the artistic craze of the period, is usually equal to the quick-witted and congenial pace set by the authors. Though no strong voices emerged, the singing bubbles smoothly over Gilbert's patter, and the evening's few sour measures are easily obscured by the humor of the lyric or the cleverness of the stage business...