Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the train rolled into Los Angeles, the first sketch of the historic rodent was tucked safely in Walt's pocket, and the roughs of his first cartoon, Plane Crazy, were drawn. Plane Crazy, however, was not the first to reach the public. Sound came roaring in just then, and silent pictures silently expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered...
...inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters, deals with suburbanites. In this framework, he plays a grown-up juvenile delinquent whose temper tantrums and general unpleasantness make him the despair of his wife (Nanette Fabray) and his friends. Writers and actors give the strong impression that they cannot fill the 60 minutes of Caesar...
...idea surrounded by dialogue that, expanded and given direction, might have become first rate writing. As it stands, it is a bit disappointing. Miss Johnson, instead of wrestling with such problems of construction as how to run some line of interest through her conversations, is content to let her sketch meander from its beginning to its end. Never seeming to head anywhere, it just wanders, then stops, building toward nothing in particular...
...Clearest Sketch. This sobering reflection on the limits of military power-even $70 billion worth of military power a year-calls attention to the great defect in the present U.S. world position. There is no forward motion toward a goal-no end in view. Since the political and military paths seem to offer no hope of decisive progress, the U.S. has begun-belatedly-to explore the possibilities of a broad economic advance on the part of the non-Communist world...
...recent days there have been many signs that Washington is seriously considering a major campaign on the front of world economic policy. This week Secretary of State Dulles gave the clearest sketch of Washington's embryonic plans. Said...