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...musician's parody of Bach to a mimic's spoof of Liberace ("Here is an opera Mozart composed for my mother"), keeping his timing uniformly impeccable in keyboard trills, one-line gags ("We have three children-one of each"), mugging, puns, audience squelchers, zany nonsequiturs and pure slapstick. The viewer's first impulse is to want to see Borge more often, but with TV's voracious way of chewing up and spewing out comedians and their material, the answer seems to be not more Borge, but more Borges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Cholers | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-bluestriped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando. Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...become the Bob Cummings Show. In it, Bob is a dame-happy bachelor photographer whose major problems are to avoid marriage while at the same time trying to find a husband for his widowed sister (Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston Cigarettes has paid the bills for the past two years and has an option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...unit, started going over The Merchant of Venice with his attractive assistant, Bennie Lee. The Eliot Drama Group was scheduled to do two scenes from this play in the House junior common room. He finally decided on the Jessica and Lorenzo love scene and the Old Gobbo scene for slapstick. It was "finalizing the script," as he called...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Television Show Comes to Harvard | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

Doctor at Sea is moored at the Exeter, with shows at 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, and 9:30. The movie boasts British accents, slapstick humor, and interesting woman problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

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