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...traveling unit includes, besides the prospective starters above, Paul Birdsall, Sid Clark, Fred Coburn, Paul Davidson, Bill Graham, Rick Hudner, Bill Kegg, Bob Lange, Bill Plissner, Dick Post, and Manager Porky Barg...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...dance audiences of 1,000 a night last week in Vancouver, B.C. Most of his band, like Armstrong, had been musically famous for more than two decades, though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
Broadway Review (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV and Du Mont), with Sid Caesar, Mary McCarty and Imogene Coca...
Accumulated disasters had NBC groggy but game. Said NBC Vice President Sid Eiges: "Nobody's sitting around worrying. We have new programs in the works-shows of all kinds, including comedy." Meanwhile, NBC is playing musical chairs with its disordered Sunday night schedule. Horace Heidt and his orchestra will be moved from 10:30 p.m. to Jack Benny's 7 p.m. slot; two new comics, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, will replace Heidt. Fred Allen switches from 8:30 to 8 p.m. But that still leaves holes to be plugged...