Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knew Susie into a waiting audience's lap), were the burnt cork and the white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always seeming like a nice little guy instead of an actor...
...Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
Robert Benchley Jr., 22, was made president of the Harvard Lampoon, campus comic magazine. Brother Nathaniel had the job four years...
...full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut of shoddy ruses, noble renunciations, comic duels, gloomy drunks, motherly madams, then smugly pats itself on the back for its unhappy ending...
...Hero ($2.75) was an honest, compassionate image of a U.S. city and of the obligations and shortcomings of U.S. democracy. William Faulkner's younger brother John, in Men Working ($2.50), showed neither influence nor need of any. River Rat ($2.50), by Daniel Lundberg, showed a fresh comic talent; Felice Swados, in House of Fury ($2), showed remarkable sure-footedness with new and difficult material: adolescent emotions in a girls' reform school, highlighted by a race riot...