Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definition of Gandhism as "goats milk, loin cloth, etc." is offered as a comic caricature, one can appreciate the writer's sense of humor. But if that is all he sincerely discovers in Gandhism, his state of mind is to be pitied. Gandhi would not resent being dubbed as a "renegade, philistine, etc," by his critie, for he would find himself in a distinguished company of many of the foremost communist leaders of yesterday, that may be joined by many more of today...
...picture is taken. A second is superimposed; and so on. While the film is run off in a soundproof room, an orchestra plays the score. Disney talks for Mickey Mouse. Five other men put in other dialog and sound imitations. But if the simple explosion of Disney's comic idea has missed fire somewhere in the translation, the whole thing is done over. All his time, energy and his $400,000 a year, Disney turns back into Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies (hero-less, dialog-less fantasies of jigging birds, beasts, fish, insects, skeletons, minerals and vegetables...
...Comic Artist (by Susan Glaspell & Norman Matson; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer) has been under various play doctors' care since 1927, when Mr. & Mrs. Matson first wrote it. Its ills are still uncured. To begin with, the play is not named after the central character of the piece. Central character is Stephen Rolf, a prolix worthy who lives and paints on Cape Cod and goes about in a windbreaker. His brother, sensitive Karl, is the cartoonist of the family, having created a comic strip character named "Muggs," who always is defeated in the last picture...
...Comic Artist contains a good deal of excellent prose in its dialog, expresses not a few credible convictions, is honest if somewhat unprofessional. Most reviewers left it with justification for harsh criticism, but without the heart to administer...
...suspicious father who supplies the comic relief contrives to make himself asinine to even the six year olds, and Schubert's molt-a-heart-of-stone sob which climaxes the second act, are the bright spots in a sopping sentimental story