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Filene's is lampooning the Lampoon this week by making an advertising gimmick of the magazine's spoof of advertising in its July Mademoiselle parody. Mannequins in death throes are advertising "clothes to be caught dead in"; others wear velvet straps, clam boots and pigeons pinned to the hems in order to deal with "problem knees"; and still others, struck by the "collectors rage," dip into bushels of mice and ensnare themselves in scotch tape and telephone wires...
...memorable among other things for the Schlepkin (read Warner) Brothers, marching from the wings in military formation; The Man Who Came to Dinner portrayed a porcupine in the shape of a man. un mistakably Woollcott with more than a few quills of Kaufman; and Of Thee I, Sing, a spoof that could teach a few mocking lessons to the Mort Sahl generation created the unforgettable Throttlebottom as well as the national committeeman who sold Rhode Island ("Nobody missed...
...FRIEND at the Bradford Hotel Roof Theatre: First Bos- ton engagement of Sandy Wilson's spoof on the Twenties, Pre-curtain dinner and dancing plus dancing after the show. Eves...
...Moiseyevs came to town with a towering advance sale ($500,000) and a big reputation-based on their successful cross-continent tour of the U.S. three years ago. In 14 numbers (ten entirely new, including a hilarious spoof of rock 'n' roll), they gave their audience the full catalogue of spins and jumps, lifts, and meshed-gear movements that they are famed for. The Graham company offered two new numbers: a rollicking, Shakespeare-inspired romp called One More Gaudy Night, and Visionary Recital, a somewhat murky exposition on the three faces of Delilah (Awakener, Betrayer, Seducer) in which...
...begins a fresh, charming, witty piece of intellectual slapstick, a two-reel silent spoof of modern painting that is just as funny as Day of the Painter (TIME, Sept. 12) but much more subtle in comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...