Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight and tomorrow night the Radcliffe Idler Club will present as its spring production the best mystery play of the last few seasons. "Ladies in Retirement" was the first of the long series of murder plays, both comic and tragic, that have flooded Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember...
Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...
Hero is a stubby, handle-bar-whiskered old Yorkshireman named Sam Small, a former millworker who invented the Small Self-Doffing Spindle and retired. He and his round, loose-tongued wife Mully talk and act with the comic simpleheartedness which might have developed, but never quite did, from the funny papers at their best. They are as kindly, cantankerous, well-hitched a couple as fiction has seen...
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...
...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...