Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still sniping at giveaway shows in his own field, pouch-eyed Radio Comic Fred Allen found time to fire a pot shot at a neighbor: "I haven't bothered much about television ... I think the men who used to take passport pictures are now the cameramen ... it seems to be nothing but radio fluoroscoped...
This supernatural hugger-mugger does not take place in a comic book or a pulp magazine, but in a novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century. Now published in the U.S., the late Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75) will soon be followed by other Williams books, and-if his effect on Britain is any indication-the almost certain growth of a small but fanatical group of Williams fans...
...Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood '18 and a success on Broadway in 1927. It is somewhat in the vein of his "Idiot's Delight" in that it has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. It is not as forceful, bitter, or integrated as was "Idiot's Delight," nor is it as funny. Furthermore, while it shows no signs of old age, neither does it show reasons for revival...
Somebody said he lived at 10 Apathy Way and was undecided, and somebody else said that he had to vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...
...Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson). He might have done well to take along his manservant (Keenan Wynn), whose comic talents occasionally save Musketeers from the doldrums...