Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hrer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas tolerating "even Texans...
...revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with...
...past) have missed the full effect of Jimmy's comedy, which comes only from watching him work in a small joint where his extraordinary gusto can not only bounce forth but also reach him on the rebound from a close and delighted audience. Then Jimmy reaches a comic violence that makes his audience feel like spectators at a small Balkan...
...relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve. A great deal of his highest comedy is deeply rooted in his own past...
...Jimmy went to Hollywood. Clayton went along as manager. Jackson joined another trio, but returned as one of Jimmy's backstage assistants. Jimmy's oldtime admirers hate to recall what happened to him in Hollywood. His more obvious buffoonery was played up, but the subtle, split-second comic counterpoint between Clayton, Jackson & Durante and their jazz band never penetrated Hollywood. In 1936 Jimmy gave himself a change by touring Europe. In Glasgow, his act so moved Sir Harry Lauder that the classic old Scottish comedian rose from his seat and joined Jimmy on the stage in spontaneous partnership...