Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judging by the squadrons of bewigged waiters who invaded every bedroom scene and by the insipid acting of Ruth Chatterton, one might say that the private life of Napoleon and Josephine was neither very private nor very lively. In fact, it must have easily been the most prosaic, uninteresting marriage since the birth of modern times...
...complicated when an over-potent South American banker, the father of half his country, makes a loan dependent on Rosalind's pregnancy. Thus doubly inspired. Douglas adds to the lustre of his boudoir savoirefaire by a superb comedy performance which succeeds in making love find a way to the bedroom and getting Rosalind to march upstairs to the tune of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The dialogue is entendre doubled and redoubled with a plot that leaps from one hilarious involvement to another. "This Thing Called Love" is a comedy definitely off color, definitely...
...hamu sandowichi, tea is chee and coffee is kohi, which is as near as the Japanese can come to pronouncing these words. Gas is gasu, tobacco is tobaku and matches are matchi. Even in the country inns, the maid will come running in with a pair of surippa, bedroom slippers. Beer is biru. When you indicate that you want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis...
...Bedroom farces used to be funny because they were the exception to the rule and because they usually had some amusing dialogue, or plot, or direction, or acting. But the inevitable Hollywood stagnation has crept into even this field; and the result is that "Come Live With Me" at Loew's is slow, unfunny, badly acted, and anything but sophisticated, as it tries so hard...
Tanyard Street (by Louis D'Alton, produced by Jack Kirkland). In this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though...