Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Still, who has not shown a single painting in seven years, is relenting in a big way, as Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery opens its doors on a one-man show of 72 oils covering 21 years. Still set stiff terms: all pictures were to be hung by himself, all competing modern canvases were to be banished from sight...
...Mouse gets out of this narrative trap, but in the process its tail end is somewhat mangled. Up to that point, though, the Roger MacDougall-Stanley Mann script is a fairly witty example of a rare film form: political burlesque. It keeps the show bouncing along despite a director (Jack Arnold) and a star (Peter Sellers, a sort of second-company Alec Guinness playing several roles) who have not mastered the light-fantastic style that suits and supports this sort of flimsy British whimsy...
...Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Music and dancing by the team that put the sparkle into last year's award-winning show: Astaire, Barrie Chase, the Jonah Jones Quartet, David Rose and his orchestra, and Producer-Director Bud Yorkin. Color...
Career. In this soaper about show business, Sad Young Hero Anthony Franciosa performs ably, but the viewer may puzzle over why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts...
Thurs., Nov. 5 The Betty Hutton Show (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). When an overimaginative governess (Betty Hutton) tries to teach her wealthy charges the value of money, the results are drastic: the kids' parents actually go to work...