Word: skits
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...Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity of a third-rate burlesque skit is Eric (In Search of Theater) Bentley, 40, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and a leading snob-about-the-theater who argues that there must be theaters for the cultured few, so as to save the "intelligent" drama from commercialism...
...onslaught Steve Allen was forced to do a little of the same kind of thing. Allen offered some big names of his own "to get the customers to walk into the store." Sammy Davis Jr. sang too long and too loud, and Kim Novak fluffed her way through a skit that strained too hard for its laughs. The best part of the Steve Allen show is Steve Allen, an intelligent comedian who has a satiric air, some amusing ideas, a rapid-fire delivery, and a quiet way of being funny that is like nobody else's. Unlike many...
...proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would say that would strike the Queen...
...Gleason is nowhere in sight. Says Perry: "I'd rather go on at 2 o'clock in the morning when there's no trouble. I don't want to fight anybody." On the air, Perry sings four or five songs, plays a skit or two with his guest stars, introduces a melange of dog acts, girl singers, acrobats. When a critic called him "Ed Sullivan with talent," Perry observed: "I hate people to say complimentary things and then pull someone else apart in the process. I like Sullivan; I watch him all the time...
...results were not always sidesplitting. Martha Raye proved that slapstick can be tasteless with an interminable skit that required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie...