Word: patters
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When TV added sight to sound, the hope was that the comic scene would be enriched with visual as well as verbal guffaws. Instead, the Big Eye seems to transfix comedians into frozen-faced patter-pushers. Visual gags, when they happen, are a cut below Charley's Aunt. With vaudeville dead, the turn of last resort has been the old silents. Last week some of this vintage wackiness seemed to have rubbed off on Comedian Ernie Kovacs who interrupted his regularly scheduled program of reruns, Silents, Please, with a half-hour of bubbleheadedness of his own. While...
...plate Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller lived up to his reputation as the Republican Party's most dedicated back patter: enjoying himself hugely. Rocky slapped a slew of G.O.P. shoulder blades, even slung an affectionate arm around a handsome new bust of himself (by Italian Sculptor Gualberto Rocchi...
...magic phrase soon assumes the flavor of a conjuror's patter, with the difference that the trick is neither cleverly nor effectively done. The professor or impartial committee (like that which drafted the Draper Report in late 1959) advises; the President requests an appropriation. Finally, the Congress authorizes and appropriates perhaps $3.8 billion for both military and economic assistance, a mere four per cent of the annual budget...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The usual Mach 2 patter, this time originating at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
Like the show itself, William Jacobson started a bit slowly, as the major general, but by the end of his famous patter song he was the very model of a modern etcetera. He coped with Gilbertian poly-syllables without slowing or slurring, and his voice was adequate. Jacobson moves well, with a good command of the stylized posturing required of Savoyards, and does a delightful bed-time ballet...