Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody in Georgia-except Hummon's "wool-hat" boys-was relieved that the comic opera was over. But the respite would not last long. Hummon was sure to try a comeback...
...petitions spread through Washington, she says, "like wildfire." By months of furious fanning, Mrs. Hanowell spread the blaze into 44 states, got 350,000 names on her petitions. Recently the state organizations incorporated into the National Council for Youth Entertainment, talked of erecting a building, of getting after comic books and mystery movies once radio's hash was settled...
Brigadoon has a remote, wistful, storybook air. Not the least storybook part of it, naturally, is a romance between one of the Americans and a Brigadoon lass. (The other American just has a comic Lowland fling with a friendly baggage.) But Brigadoon mainly seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental...
...Shulman type of humor, relying upon the wittiest of word play rather than comic situations, is much less at home upon the stage than upon the printed page. But a fair number of recognizable bon mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody...
...Steve Canyon," Milton Caniff's new comic strip hero...