Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burlesque (by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins; produced by Jean Dalrymple) is a typical 20-years-after revival of a smash hit that pleases most of the people who saw it before; it convinces them that their taste has matured. Only Bert Lahr-as the baggy-pants comic who makes the grade on Broadway, then rapidly and literally goes to pot-gives this baggy-pants production (by co-Author Arthur Hopkins) any authenticity, or even...
Hollywood's Jean Parker, as the comic's ever-loving wife who saves him from himself, is interesting principally as a topographical phenomenon, and one not soon to be forgotten...
...subway alumni on its side. It will interest few others. The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...
...this amusing, serio-comic study, Author Hodgins, one of FORTUNE'S editors, puts the Blandings over just about all the jumps that confront the well-set businessman and his wife in their expensive search for the simple life...
Your editorial in the December 19 Crimson praising the War Department Information and Education Program strikes an old I & E non-com like myself as being a bit tragic-comic...