Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of the people involved--Bryan becomes Brady and Darrow, Drummond--Messers. Lawrence and Lee would seem to be saying that they have reserved the right to alter the story. Nobody would begrudge them this right, except for the fact that the changes they made nearly always constitute clever dramatic effects. Thus, for instance, Bryan collapses spectacularly after the end of the trial. It's a neat trick, since it automatically restores him to the audience's sympathies. But it beclouds the potentially fascinating problem of how a once-great man, three times almost President, would feel after an ignominious...
...minor roles are brandished competently. The lighting, especially when there is hardly any light on stage, is also fine. The whole production is directed with care and spirit by Bretaigne Windust; he introduces several amusing gestures and poses, creates humor with several clever props--e.g., a dead man's shoes--and his ingenious curtain calls are witty. As a whole, Arsenic and Old Lace is a pleasure...
...Hubert. How clever...
Other segments of American student life emerge from the translation exercises. "American football is a very rough game." The sentence for translation which cuts most deeply into America's way of life reads, "Music is of no use to me, said the 'clever' American boy; "it won't help me to get money...
...fastidious Parisians--and Montrealers and New Yorkers, too. Mappin & Webb shrewdly have taken the precaution of outfitting their Place Vendome premises with an alarm system, and it takes considerable ingenuity by Tony, Joe and Mario (who has been flown in from Milan for the occasion) to outwit the clever device. But they do, and they have some hot sparklers on their hands. Also a woman in Pigalle...