Word: phils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phil. from Breslau...
Tillich studied at the Universities of Berlin, Tubingen, and Halle. He received the D. Phil. degree from the University of Breslau in 1910, and has received honorary doctorates at many universities, including Yale and Princeton, since then. He is a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
Members of the crew in addition to Nathanson are Tim Brown, John Roosevelt, Addison Closson, Nick Baker, Fred Hoppin, Phil Tierney, and J. Carter Brown. Three of the sailors are sophomores...
...Phil Silvers' one-man show is little more than a jumble of old burlesque routines connected by the barest of plots and a few undistinguished melodies. On film, even these overdone antics seem scarcely like parodies and painfully like the real thing. As an opener, four or five comedians plant themselves in front of one set and shout two-line jokes at each other for forty minutes. Top Banana rapidly sheds its appeal in the next two acts with variations on the same theme...
Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...