Word: monologuist
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Nashville, after a bout with Dixie cooking, Illinois-born Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner had one question: "Why aren't all Southern women as fat as Kate Smith...
Wylie found Frost "truly fascinating, and the most charming conversationalist-I should say monologuist-I have ever known." Later, TIME staff writer A. T. Baker joined the two for an evening's conversation during which Frost and Baker spent much of the time quoting other men's poetry to each other. As a parting gift to Wylie and Baker, Frost gave them the signed typescript of his new, unpublished, 14-page poem. Its title: How, Hard It Is To Keep From Being King When It's In You And In The Situation...
They need everything they have in Tickets Please!. At times even their own material deserts them, and little else is ever on their side. Jack Albertson has an engagingly easy manner; and Roger Price, a recurrent monologuist with a sketchbook, says some funny things, but by no means often enough. For the rest, a number of colorless young people romp around in various wobbly sketches and sing some tormentingly vapid love songs. Since the Hartmans are the whole show, it's too bad they aren...
...choreography, is a high point in the show. Jack Albertson is another talented fellow who can do anything from a good buck-and-wing to double talk; Patricia Bright is a very attractive and delightful singing comedienne. Roger Price, a latter-day Herb Shriner, is an amusing monologuist, and a clever cartoonist as well...
...spoofs about radio deserve a mild hand. Wally Cox, a young monologuist who writes his own stuff, deserves a very loud cheer. By means of a quiet Will-Rogersish manner and a sharp Ring-Lardnerish pen, he creates a couple of monstrously matter-of-fact characters that are both hilarious and appalling...