Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earn Treasure some peculiar awards. Movie trade papers are treating it as a western; Daily Variety called it "action stuff with heavy masculine appeal." Reviewer Virginia Wright wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News: "[The] audience . . . seemed to find [Treasure] hilariously funny and, once having decided the spectacle was comic, they laughed indiscriminately at murder, fear and irony...
...Detroit, Indiana University Professor John Robert Moore averred that Shakespeare was not antiSemitic. Shylock, said he, was not intended as a gibe at the Jews: Shakespeare meant him to be played as a comic figure, like Pantaloon...
Always Together (Warner), a hurried, ordinary little comedy, has a few better-than-ordinary comic ideas, but they never quite come off. A multimillionaire (Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture...
...survive, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has had to make a few bourgeois compromises. It has added a horserace handicapper, a crossword puzzle, a gossip columnist, and comic strips-The Nebbs, Gene Byrnes's Reg'lar Fellers, and Gluyas Williams' gentle panels on suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with...
...kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half...