Life Without TIFH
S a substitute for the lamented T/FH from 1ZB, the Bing Crosby Show has little to recommend it. Bing’s shirtsleeved personality is not microgenic enough to sustain a script so weak that it barely totters to the end of the session. Calling All Stars, on the other hand, has its points. I find Ted Ray an engaging comedian, who grows on you. He hasn’t the cheskily vulgar, acrobaticvoiced insanit® € &xankie Howerd nor the majestic truiting)s of Jimmy Edwards, but in hf, cgp@i-fire, smart-alecky delivery he rer.inds me of Tommy Handley at his best. Sometimes, I think, the situation of the naive young man being assailed by the slinky, seductive adventuress is over-used, and in dubious taste, anyhow. And why’ is it that the curtain-lines of the latter-half sketches are always so feeble? TIFH suffered from this weakness, too. But, ah! the
vanished strengths!
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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148Life Without TIFH New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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