Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kate Smith Evening Hour (Wed. 8 p.m., NBCTV) alternates sentimental Kate Smith, as amply amiable as ever, with topflight variety acts. On the opening show Paul Lukas appeared in a dramatic skit; William Bendix in a comedy role; Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers paid their satiric respects to show...
Mr. Lahr and Miss Gray can smile a trifle sadly at Two on the Aisle. Its skits are the show's main virtue, and even some of them should work shorter hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are...
London was staging a show of Hogarths last week that would have pleased the old 18th Century painter-engraver pink. Instead of featuring the satiric, story-telling picture series (Harlot's Progress, Rake's Progress, Marriage a la Mode, etc.) which made him famous in his lifetime, the...
Playwrights Kaufman & MacGrath (Mrs. Kaufman) have written the latest of many price-of-success stories. Appearances, they make clear, can be even more deceitful than their own hard worldlings -in the small hours, the worldlings themselves feel small and lonely. When the play displays the Kaufman gifts for satiric comment...
The fun that Author Charles Mergendahl has with such background stuff is the best thing in his light little novel, It's Only Temporary. Whenever he sticks to impressionistic sketches of packaged postwar living, his book is amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to...