Word: savoyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury of Ribaldry (Riverside) carries a long foreword by Editor Louis Untermeyer defending the record, and the book from which it is drawn, from a nonexistent attack by outraged moralists. Britain's Savoyard Martyn Green gives a chirruping reading of selected passages from Ovid's Art of Love, Boccaccio's Decameron, Benjamin Franklin's Advice on the Choice of a Mistress, as well as a clutch of risque limericks...
...parade of singers, dancers and actors has been programed without any overlapping: ¶ NBC and Rexall Drug Co. will try spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time...
...slightly stronger volume to make her perfect as a Gilbert and Sullivan heroine. With a clear, lilting voice she toys with the satiric words and music, never dragging, and always aware of her position as an actress. Elizabeth Kalkhuret, in the smaller role of Ruth, also is quite Savoyard, and gives, perhaps, the most consistent performance. Always on top of her role, she constantly strives for mannerisms characteristic of the middle-aged woman she plays...
From the technical point of view, this year's Leverett production is excellent for a House group. There is a full "orchestra" and a colorful set, a highly competent cast, and well-paced direction. But withal, the Bunnies never quite caught the spirit of a true Savoyard piece...
...Sorcerer," in its opening performance, was good fun, but it was not real G & S. Perhaps in the next three nights, with technical matters pretty well settled, the cast will be able to instill in itself a bit more of the ruddy old Savoyard enthusiasm...