Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...
...Danish Foreign Office announced that it would officially protest the Hollywood story of Hans Christian Andersen starring jittery Comic Danny Kaye. The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken quickly added its support: "Reports from Hollywood indicate that the cobbler's son from Odense, Denmark, shall now be known to history as the singing and dancing hero from a $4,000,000 Technicolor show. Is it really permitted to distort the life of great men in such reckless manner?" Danny's considered opinion: "I think the people of Denmark will like the picture. I don't do any scat singing...
Habitues of Sunday comic supplements are well aware of Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...
...much easier to point out the bad aspects of this play, which are for the most part structural, than it is to put one's finger on the good. The defects, such as the dubious comic relief provided by he shenanigans of a young woman named Baby Love Dallas, can be sharpened up in a couple of weeks. The high quality of lyric beauty in much of the dialogue, however, cannot be lost. One outstanding merit of the present production is Mildred Natwick's perceptive interpretation of Dolly Talbo, while Georgia Burke, as Catherine the cook, is consistently amusing...
...Clearly, Mr. Capote was hampered at the outset by the limited number of ways in which one can write a play. He had a quixotic plot and a tragic theme to work with, and inexplicably be chose straight comedy for his dramatic medium. Regrettably his continual resort to stock comic artifices detracts greatly from the important thematic development of the play...