Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alison Skipworth and Roland Young supply the comic background for Crosby's impersonation of a waiter. The name of the picture incidentally is "Here Is My Heart" but it might be called any thing except "Romance in Manhattan" for that is the title of Francis Lederer's picture...
...built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...
...book is chiefly the work of Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35, who has been a leading figure in the last two Pudding productions. Last year he played the comic, female lead, and two years ago he was the swashbuckling pirate chief in "Step Lively...
...acting is so good that one cringes with rage at the doings of the mother who in her tantrums succeeds also in causing the death of her aged invalid mother. There is little to raise the play from the depths of morbid despair into which it falls. The comic relief provided by the grandmother comes at the wrong moments and the silly simperings of the giddy mother serve only to heighten the horrors of the household...
...HARSH VOICE-Rebecca West- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Four ironic novelettes by the aging enfant terrible of literary London. Three turn on the comic interplay of differing conceptions of love, one on murder...