Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decline and fall of Ginger is described in five long flashbacks. For a wonder, the interruptions, usually fatal to the flow of interest, do not really interrupt; the flashback has seldom been used with such propriety and naturalness. The battle scenes are excellent, too, particularly a couple of comic ones...
...Cyril and Florian, Hilarion's sidekicks, Donald Fern and William Nethercut maintained uniform quality throughout demanding roles. In the second act, for instance, they sang five ensembles in a row without losing their freshness. Fern's comic touches also contributed to the general hilarity...
...major performances, and fails adequately to show the importance of his growing awareness toward the close of the play. Supporting performances of note include those of John Hezlitt, Whitney Haley as the magistrate, Joseph Mitchell as the man from Boston, and Jack Rogers and Ed Finnegan in unusually credible comic portrayals...
...been unobtrusively celebrating its 35th anniversary, but then Ed Sullivan decided to give broadcasting a TV salute on his Toast of the Town. However, NBC, still pursuing the quarrel it claims CBS started, refused to let its brightest stars attend. Dependable Jack Benny ran off one of his faultless comic monologues; George Burns added some needed spice; and H. V. Kaltenborn did a funny job of imitating Harry S. Truman imitating H. V. Kaltenborn after the 1948 election...
...week's end attentive viewers of Ed Murrow's Person to Person got capsule instruction on how to become a comedian or a successful author. The recipe for being a funnyman was supplied by Comic Garry Moore: "Almost every comedian starts out by being too small or too fat to be an athlete and, to compensate, he becomes the class clown." Kathleen Winsor, whose Forever Amber has sold 3,000,000 copies, sat primly on a white bearskin and explained that in putting together her opus she had spent 1,303 hours in reading, 1,380 hours...