Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modish liaison. But Moliére's butt-who suddenly learned with rapture that he had been speaking prose all his life-was a passably solid character. When Zany Clark gets through with him, M. Jourdain has not a shred of character left: he is merely a comic named Bobby Clark. He is often as knowing as M. Jourdain is naive; he is oftener mad for sex than for high society...
...comic who appeals to both crowd and clerisy, 57-year-old Bobby Clark has clicked in virtually every form of show business. Until 1936 he was the better half of the great vaudeville comedy team of Clark & McCullough. After his partner's suicide, he went on-as very few survivors of famous stage partnerships have-to achieve greater fame...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...
...family involved in this particular household dilemma doesn't contain the intrinsically comic characters so well remembered from those laugh-a-minute antecedents in the tradition of the zany famille and the trespasser on the hearth. Yet William Roos' adaptation of the Bollamy Partridge novel is bound to satisfy most of those who are willing to go along with a fairly original version of the old urban-rural conflict, despite the gaping holes left in the comic continuity by the playwright and director Ezra Stone, who will be remembered as Henry Aldrich in real life...
Most of what acting is required is adequately handled by Helen Carew and Charles Middleton as the wife and her farmer, any by Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...