Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
...what the Pilot, official weekly of Boston's Roman Catholic archdiocese, called Bob Hope's sexy gags last month. Last week Chicago's Novena Notes joined in, announcing that in a poll of 10,000 of its readers (25% of them servicemen) they had voted Comic Hope the radio and film star who "most consistently violates" Christian principles. Runners-up: Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor. Least disapproved: Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen...
Even so, it is by no means without interest and a certain charm. Dr. Morton (Joel McCrea) is Sturges' least caricatured, most straightforwardly sympathetic hero to date. Some of the comedy, supplied chiefly and expertly by William Demarest (the picture is reduced largely to its comic episodes), is funny if you can enjoy laughter in contexts of physical misery. Some of the drama, supplied by McCrea, by Louis Jean Heidt as Horace Wells (who discovered the anesthetic possibilities of laughing gas) and by Harry Carey as Dr. Warren (who first used anesthesia for surgery), is firm, humane and moving...
...savage fight for Walcheren Island, key to Antwerp (TIME, Nov. 13), had an almost comic ending when fussy little Lieut. General Wilhelm Daser, commander of the Wehrmacht's 70th (White Bread) Division, suddenly made up his mind to surrender...
...paper, Haggin has a comic gift for impersonating musical stuffed shirts. He can also tell howlers on himself: once, at a concert, when he glared at Violinist Jacques Gordon, who was noisily shuffling a score, Gordon glared back at the noiseless Haggin and growled: "Shut...