Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silk Stockings, in a manner of speaking, is an uneven pair: during the first act, almost everybody on stage is at loose ends with himself, missing cues, timing jokes badly, willfully ignoring the orchestra, and generally making a hash of what is not a very good Cole Porter show at best. But from the very beginning of Act II, we are delightfully, tunefully, spiritedly taken in hand and tossed into that wonderful Dream Kingdom, Drumbeat and Song Land, where girls are goilier, flesh is flashier, and nonsense is all the sense we crave...
...fact, Porter's show is not at all the re-make of Garbo's wonderful film Ninotchka it pretends to be: it is really one long burlesque skit, as its title suggests, recalling the glorious days when our forefathers went to hear Milton Berle or Ed Wynn or Phil Silvers crack jokes that hurt, and pinch backsides that apparently couldn't be. Even in the generally disastrous first act of Silk Stockings--when the scenery is swaying, and the music is too soft when people are singing, and too loud behind them when they're talking--there are moments when...
...Ship of Fools, Porter...
While the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs made music together last night, three undergraduate authors read their works at the Signet Society. Sidney Goldfarb of Harvard read poetry; Joseph Porter of Harvard read fiction; and Michael Gilfond of Yale read...
...Joseph Porter's selections from a short novel fell between Mr. Gilfond's exclamations and Mr. Goldfarb's poems, happily on the Harvard side. Mr. Porter read a passage about marriage between the fat lady and the hunchback in a circus, and the birth of their son. In spite of over-frequent and bloated metaphors, and occasionally awkward constructions, the tale had a weird, almost compulsive attraction...