Word: monologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ruth Draper, 69, began a "farewell Broadway engagement"-while remarking that "the farewell engagement is a standing joke in the business." All the same, it was a reminder that an irreplaceable theater figure would not be an eternal one. Ruth Draper has soundly insisted that she is no mere monologist or diseuse; she describes herself as a character actress. In any case, she is with every slightest word, gesture and accent the character she is portraying. And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter, a whole international...
There was plenty of it. At 11 a.m. every day except the Sabbath for three weeks, there was scheduled a chamber music concert; at 2:30, a ballet or a performance by Monologist Emlyn Williams; nearly every evening, a concert by Britain's Royal Philharmonic* or one of five other symphony orchestras, a performance by the Hamburg State Opera, dancing by the New York City, Sadler's Wells Theatre or Marquis de Cuevas ballets, or a play...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
Ford Festival (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBCTV) is an hour-long look at Tenor James Melton juicily singing such chestnuts as My Wild Irish Rose, or walking through a scene from Madame Butterfly. Each musical number is scored, acted and costumed as though it were the finale. Also on hand: Monologist Vera Vague; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Commercials: unobtrusive films of the latest Ford models...