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...games in one week. His idolizing Negro fans expect him to play in every game. Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...
...minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But his prison term hadn't really changed him. He had just published a book, and in it he was still the arrogant and unblushing showoff...
...Skelton's antics and prat-falls. Unable to satisfy any but the most ardent fan by sheer weight of pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same time touching. It's a long haul...
...them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete's foot...
Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...