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...sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been spend doing...
...discussing a screenplay for Director Stanley (Paths of Glory) Kubrick. His income tax for 1958 will be more than his entire income for 1957 (about $7,500), and his 1959 gross promises to run into six figures. This week Feiffer and the Hall Syndicate ("Herblock," Norman Vincent Peale, Pogo) announced that starting in April his work will appear weekly in the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Newark Star-Ledger and Long Island Press, and added that a score of other papers were in various degrees of negotiations...
...College, then to San Francisco City College and to San José State. She studied voice, biology, philosophy, art, art history, woodworking. During her two years at San José State she sang in a small nightclub on weekends, and she began to develop a style. Says Cartoonist Walt ("Pogo") Kelly: "She was a real dish of Yo-Kan, a cute little, sweet little bean cake. She could have licked the brass section of Phil Spitalny's all-girl orchestra with one tonsil...
...strips, I am responsible for what is said in them and how it is said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want to insist on a right - which they do not have - to edit my copy." The Pogo balloon that Editor Colburn popped was only the beginning. Said Pogo a few strips later: "This fella said the thing to do when schools is padlocked or bombed is to open a speakeasy schoolroom near by." Albert the Alligator chimed in: "You open up a school, next thing you know all kinds...
Charleston. S.C. the Evening Post went farther, dropped the whole education sequence. Other Southern editors chose to let Pogo have his say, carried his full symposium on "consegregated," "de-conseg-regated," and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. Cracked Editor Harry Ashmore. whose Arkansas Gazette did not pencil Pogo: "I suppose some editors are worried about their daughters' marrying a possum...