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Embarrassing Riches. Joey on the Goodyear TV Playhouse was more in the classic TV tradition: a small story about an insecure boy, sensitively seen by Author Louis Peterson, and performed with wit and understanding by talented Kim Stanley and Newcomer Anthony Perkins, whose Lincolnesque good looks are certain to bring him offers from Hollywood...
...fell off the pace, finally closed strong. It was away from the post with The Taming of the Shrew, a brisk Shakespearean gallop which showed Maurice Evans at the top of his form as the impetuous Petruchio. while Lilli Palmer gave smouldering life to the imperious Kate. Staged with wit and imagination by The Hit Parade's William Nichols and costumed brilliantly by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Shrew was one of the best of Maurice Evans' productions...
Died. Fred Allen (real name: John Florence Sullivan), 61, radio and TV humorist whose topical, misanthropic wit and acidity reached its peak in the early '40s on the radio show Town Hall Tonight, which included his wife Portland Hoffa and such zany denizens of Allen's Alley as Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy; of a heart attack while walking his dog near midnight on Manhattan's West 57th Street. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Allen lurched onto the vaudeville boards at 17 as one of the most inept jugglers in history, became a comic...
...those who do, the book will perhaps rank with the best of Lewis. An acute and complex mind analyzes an early family history, a despicable educational system, a precocious not to say avaricious literary experience, and the spiritual roots of England in the twenties, with wit, insight, and dignity...
...spiritual account, this history is nowhere nearly so effective as much of his other work. Instead of the penetrating commentary on contemporary atheism as an excuse for sloth, vice, and weakness which he gives with urbane wit in The Screwtape Letters, we find a revolution of 'vices' in himself. This is of course natural; he points out that he has never attacked the two vices which never tempted him--homosexuality and gambling. But many readers will find what he now regards as vices not at all wicked, for Lewis before conversion is much like the world today...