Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magazine stand owners in the Square started taking a closer look at the comic books and pulp magazines they sell yesterday as Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold announced that he will launch a drive later this week to remove all obscene literature from public sale...
Velluci was particularly disturbed by the love-story comic books being sold in the Square. "I have now in my possession a magazine, "High School Romance," which advises teenagers whether they should keep on making love to their boy friends, how to do it, and tries to solve other romance troubles," Vellucci added...
...room to whirl around in. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama wrote their script - and Kaye's talented wife Sylvia Fine contributed the specialty numbers - somewhat in the style of an aria with a few optional passages scattered along the way, at which points Danny could go into a comic Kayedenza if the inspiration came. And inspiration does come. One of the funniest parts of the picture is the scene in which Kaye. on the spur of the moment, becomes an automobile salesman sputtering trade talk ("overhead underslung oscillating compression decravinator") as if his teeth were a string of firecrackers...
...performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
...mostly it is crude, unavailing hackwork-domestic comedy that, when all else fails, drags the comic maid out of the kitchen...