Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...
Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl...
Cabin in the Sky (book by Lynn Root, lyrics by John Latouche, music by Vernon Duke, produced by Albert Lewis & Vinton Freedley). Something of the comic charm of The Green Pastures pervades this new musical fable conceived by whites for an all-Negro cast. In it the robustly endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view...
...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...
Pittsburgh's Variety Club, orphan-succoring organization (started twelve years ago after an actor found a baby at a local theatre), feted a ten-month-old foundling, named him Joe E. Brown. On hand for the festivities, shovel-mouthed Comic Brown bounced the baby on his knee, talked of adopting him (though he had five...