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...Liebman has unfortunately relegated humor, whenever there is any, to a poor second place. In only one skit does the audience get a chance to painful manner...
Last but not least among the group's activities have been the radio presentations. On October 13, a small cast under Rapaport's leadership put on a skit called "A City is Like a Man." The point of the show was that the city is like a human being, that had to have a certain amount of integrity to maintain its place with the other cities. Hynes has rated this performance as one of the most effective efforts in his campaign. The group hopes to go on the air again before the election...
Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing borrowed and nothing blue." In his opening telecast, there were a few borrowings (e.g., the ancient gag of casually lifting an outsized dumbbell from the straining hand of a strongman), and one skit, if not blue, verged on the off-color (Wynn coyly repelling the advances of Singer Gertrude Niesen...
...last night before reaching shore, passengers followed the old tradition of putting on ship's variety shows. The "Volendam" ended one trip with a skit called "North Atlantic," featuring the music of "South Pacific"; a "Scythia" production led with the verse...
Last week, Soviet Bandleader Leonid Utesov produced a satiric view of Russian inventiveness. In a skit at Moscow's Hermitage Gardens, Utesov tells a friend that he is to be congratulated-he has just invented the umbrella. The friend points out that the umbrella has already been invented. "Yes," says Utesov, "but I am the first man to invent the umbrella for the second time...