Word: boob
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...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
...quite a Hollywood careeer of inspiring heroes, especially composers (the film George Gershwin and the film Cole Porter, both under Alexis' magic spell, sat right down and dashed off their best music). But she doesn't quite click with the screen's young Maugham. The poor boob goes right on yearning for that impossible, vulgar hashslinger...
...Damon Runyon in a simulation of humor often manages to say things which, if said in a serious tone might be erased because he is not supposed to say things like that. By saying something with a half-boob air . . . he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...
...Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Bobby Clark; produced by Michael Todd) was for 276 years a satiric comedy. Last week it became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob who ached to shine in high society. Then Actor Clark cut up in it. The result, here & there, is as hilarious as it is heterodox. But mostly it falls flat...
There is a married book-jobber who is useful for visions of glamorous sinning but not much else. There is her arty boob of a brother-in-law, whom she thinks she loves. There is a gay bully of a newspaperman, whom she thinks she hates. But after dinner, theater and a midnight drive with the Press, hate turns to love...