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...Skelton Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Red's main skit is about a fellow who takes refuge in a fallout shelter when his wife prepares to take the role of Madame Butterfly in a women's club production...
...entertainment goes far toward relieving Chicago's country-cousin complex as the U.S.'s second city. Even the Tribune praised the show for its "sparkle and sauciness, speed and irreverence." Oedipus Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper," a flexible skit touched off by items in the press. When discoveries of police corruption recently scandalized the Chicago area from Cicero to Lake Forest, a Second City actress would rush onstage each night, frantically dial a number and say: "Hello, FBI? There's a policeman hanging around in front...
Told in neat, revue-skit-sized flashbacks, The Good Soup uses a good deal of stage material that is somewhat reminiscent itself. Its scenes are oftener familiar and hard-headed than lighthearted and original, so that in terms of lightly farcical entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though...
...said he proposed something on their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor, and an amusing Paul Ford having trouble in one skit getting rid of a mermaid and in another getting rid of his wife (Peggy Cass), and then with both men tipsily shopping in Fifth Avenue's tonier shops. Or people rewrite poems for an anthology that is to be uncompromisingly cheerful...
...Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual, who clinched the show. Whether he was acting "a nice Arthur Godfrey," a wide-awake Perry Como, or the aging kid next door, Moore's casual, easy humor made everything come off-from a far-out science-fiction skit to a split-second...