Word: bumblers
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...Personally a "good guy" with good intentions and reasonable opinions, Venizelos is one of the world's best bridge players. But as a political leader he has been largely ineffectual, i.e., a bumbler...
U.P.A.'s plans call for full-length treatment of a collection of James Thurber stories (half live, half animation), Ben Jonson's Volpone, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Meanwhile, half the company's shorts will feature a nearsighted bumbler named Mr. Magoo. Little Gerald's talents are too specialized for many other stories, but in its own way, his "Boing!" may prove as resounding as the first peep out of Mickey Mouse...
There is one important feature that distinguishes this production from most other comedies. It has A. E. Matthews. This man is a magnificent bumbler. His bumbling is troublesome in the first act, stimulating in the second, and ingratiating in the third. The eighty-year old actor, portraying a somewhat senile carl who is concerned mainly with shooting marauding rabbits, quietly dominates the action. His bumbling is perfected, the slope of his back is eloquent, and his sage unconcern with mundane matters cannot become tiresome. Aside from his unfortunate tendency to esh his esses, Matthews distributes his lines with the precision...
...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...
...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...