Word: vall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial clichés. Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home; yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...Veteran Comedienne Molly Picon clucks and coos authentically, but Bubi, her baby, is, of all people, hulking Negro Comic Godfrey Cambridge wearing little-boy clothes (brought in, he says, because "there aren't too many Negro theater parties"). Some things in the book did strike home, yet Seymour Vall's two-character revue is nothing but the schlock of recognition...
...RUDY VALLÉE New York City...
While to date, Vall's dire prognoses have been almost invariably correct for the two lower echelons, his thoroughbreds -notably Saratoga and Pink Jungle-have all too often turned turkey. Group III, with about 60% profit makers, has actually outperformed Group IV by about 10%-which is why Vail regards a Broadway opening as "the greatest suspense story ever told," and why his handicapping is less than final...