Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the stage, a colorful and impressive array of no less than a dozen distinct scenes is presented--effective enough in themselves to keep a normal audience awake. The presence of the afore-mentioned body of water is thoroughly exploited and the show ends up as a fancy and comic diving exhibition midst colored lights, soft music and beautiful girls, all of which brings back memories of a guy named Billy Rose...
Died. John Westcott ("Fred Karno"), 75, veteran English music-hall comic and producer; in Parkstone, England. In 1906 he hired an unknown named Charles Chaplin, made him into a music-hall star, took him to the U.S. in 1913, lost him to Mack Sennett...
Despite the tedious script (which fails to provide Comic Red Skelton with any comedy at all) and a pox of poor direction (e.g., composing a hit tune in about two minutes flat), the picture has some lively moments: the dead-pan vocalizing of frightened Virginia O'Brien, the up-from-the-jungle hoofing of the Berry Brothers, and the nostalgia of the old sweet Gershwin songs...
...musical. For those who suffer from the brassy effects of Glenn Miller's hot and cold treatment of fair-to-middling new tunes (best: Chattanooga Choo Choo), there is plenty of slaloming at Idaho's Sun Valley. Performed by experts (and happily lampooned by liver-lipped Comic Milton Berle), the skiing sequences are a spectacular job of chiaroscuro photography...
...Barnard, who is 29 and obviously knows his milieu and his people thoroughly. The end of the book is corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...