Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...skit was certainly no broader in its assault on humor than many another on Arthur Godfrey & His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Dressed as whitewings, Godfrey, Crooner Morton Downey and Hollywood Comic Jack Carson appeared on the screen pushing street cleaners' brooms. Said Godfrey: "Well, we've dished a lot of it out. Let's clean some...
...Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
There is no reason why Gilbert and Sullivan can't be put on the screen successfully. It has wit as well as slapstick, there are always love scenes and plenty of dancing, and everybody knows the music. But the D'Oyly Carte Company, which has set the standards for G & S stage productions since the beginning of time, has not managed to create the proper flavor in its film version of "The Mikado...
Machinery was also set up to form a committee that will screen volunteers for the College National Students Association delegation...
Davenport, opening with a rush that left Eliot far behind, scored first at 3:32 of the first period on a long screen-shot. Kent Eaton countered with an unassisted goal at 4:12, but two plays later Davenport's Joe Quinn scored from a faceoff in Harvard territory...