Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely comic than ever...
...comic lines are relieving, and Spring Byington, the casual widow at whose country home the meeting takes place, is the grace note in a play where everyone else has something on his of her mind. But even with the uniformly excellent acting. "When Ladies Meet" by little more than good entertainment...
...dollar lots to names in the city directory, acts consistently well throughout the production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective, but as a whole the picture has too little continuity, too little of its best actors...
...same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages...
...Armistice Day six years ago the officials of Princeton University set off a firecracker under the athletic world by severing connections with Harvard because of an unfortunate Lampoon editorial. The break was, however, due to more than a broadside in the college comic; it was caused by a crisis in relations that had been badly frayed by lack of tact, sportsmanship, and sanity. The editorials reprinted below are all too reliable witnesses to that; there is a malevolence betrayed in them which one feels, cannot return. The day of football rallies, of graduate agitation for a larger and finer stadium...