Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Comic Henry Morgan, who two years ago was vaguely linked with subversive organizations by the publication Red Channels, admitted that his jokes have sold more & more badly since then. His regular income has dived from $8,250 a week to the mere $45 he now gets for writing a newspaper column. Obviously, claimed Henry in court, he can no longer pay $150-a-week temporary alimony to his estranged wife Isobel. The judge saw it Henry's way, ordered Isobel's weekly stipend...
Congress got around to some formal worrying about TV's morals last week, with results that should have made many a TV comic envious...
...season's gayest comedies, Pat and Mike benefits by George Cukor's shrewd direction, the sprightly lines of Authors Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...
Exams came uncomfortably close. Freshmen went off to hear Bootch comic Sir Harry Lauder and then scuttled off for a last-minute cram. Meanwhile one dean told the Harvard Dames that "Girls, Clubs, tutorial schools and the 24-hour memory were demoralizing the college...
Zazu Pitts, long hoped retired or committed, returns to the screen with a plop as the comedy relief, which is neither comic nor relieving. It rather adds to the strain. In short, there is little more universally entertaining that a western, especially in technicolor, even when written to a formula. But if action becomes drudgery, if lines are sighed instead of spat, and if actors look like hod-carriers hurrying to get a union-day's work done, the series of scenes moves like a man blind with amnesia. LAURENCE D. SAVADOVE