Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the thoroughly-shredded plot of the Tarkington satire as a vague backdrop, manages, like most of its siblings, to be pretty funny. This is due, as usual, to Hope's exertions--here as a craven barber trying to fill a French Duke's shoes as swordsman, lover, and bridegroom...
...Fatal Weakness (produced by the Theatre Guild) finds the George Kelly who has so often gone after women with a whip (Craig's Wife, Behold the Bridegroom) merely thwacking them with a hairbrush-and almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing...
...scene shifts to Washington and the plot to Cinderella. In the capital, where her bridegroom is obviously a man of consequence, Katy-appears at a cocktail party in a mousy dress with a frumpy, ruffled collar. All the other women are wearing chic, severe black with diamond clips. Katy, of course, feels perfectly terrible for a good many feet of film until Taylor takes her shopping for some Irene gowns...
...call them, don't care. In fact, they like it. Last week, in celebrating the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey, they staged a contest for the best Monterrey jokes. Too well-known to compete: the story of the Monterrey bridegroom who honeymooned alone in Mexico City because the bride had already seen the place...
Busily Engaged. In Houston, prospective Bridegroom Frank Trevino asked for a fourth marriage license, explained that his future mother-in-law had torn up the first, during a family row someone had torn up the second, his bride-to-be had torn up the third...