Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, Flight Instructor Gobel spent much of his spare time working out comedy routines, later found work delivering sober-faced, simple monologues in Chicago nightclubs. Then he made some of the better-known TV shows (Ed Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael) as a guest comic. He was the big splash last month on David 0. Selznick's four-network TV show Diamond Jubilee of Light (TIME, Nov. 8), delivering a deadpan talk on electronic brains that probably set science back three centuries...
...setting (John Ratte) and costumes and wigs (Lesile Van Zandt and Helen Gardiner) set the comic tone for a production that rarely slows down. By judiciously picking School for Scandal, the HDC presents a show which can hardly fail to please. Sheridan may have been more entertaining in past productions; the HDC rarely...
...horse who, for some reason, wanders on stage. Coming at the end of a particularly vapid line by the leading man, Tom Helmore, it serves as a short, and probably unrehearsed, comment on proceedings. It was probably unrehearsed because the horse's timing was slightly off for best comic effect; but then he (or, perhaps, she) is not being paid Equity rates for a speaking part, and you can't get top talent for horsefeed...
...Helmore, as a starving writer, Constance Ford as his wife, and John Baragrey who plays the criminal, all seem to have talent. But it is preferable for a comedian to play with his role, finding its true comic values. These poor people must wrestle with theirs just to achieve coherence. It seems that the horse, besides having the only laugh of the evening, may have the last one since he, at least, is master...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...