Word: swann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monty Memoir," which had Field Marshal Montgomery recalling those bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
Monday, December 18 AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). English Satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in a distillation of last year's Broadway show, which deftly poked fun at practically everything...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. The humor of Michael Flanders' and Donald Swann's revue resembles a martini: it goes down smoothly, is slightly sly, and definitely...
...celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living up to the motto "You're a Stranger Here Once." Between gulps of Liebfraumilch, he listens sympathetically to the troubles of the drinkers who huddle around his piano bar, treats each individually with an appropriate number drawn from...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Sound a bellow with a whisper, match a maharajah with a mouse, mix wit with whimsy, and you have the combination for an evening of charming entertainment by Flanders and Swann...