Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plymouth--"Little Accident". A clever comedy about illegitimacy...
Plymouth--"Little Accident". Clever comedy about illegitimacy...
...pitched a trifle higher the results would be considerably better. In this number the accompaniment by the chorus was skillfully managed, as was the massed singing when they appeared at the several finales. The other male members of the cast, Messrs, Pitkin, McCarthy and Hermson, combined in a clever and well-executed number that proved the favorite of the first-night audience; the "Topical Trio" with the "Do you follow me?" chorus...
...dicing in India has the importance of a national issue is the rather incredible instruction that U. S. audiences will get out of this film. The dice pass between two young brown kings who start shooting for money, then for jewels, then for kingdoms, then for women. When a clever little boy finds out that the dice are loaded, the news comes as a call to arms and a whole state rises furiously to march on the palace of King Sohat, the crooked shooter. Punctuating these absurdities are scenes of horror involving poisoned arrows, cobras and a few fine pictures...
...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...