Word: comical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play he is producing with his own movie cash. The play was expressly written for Producer Robinson after he was persuaded to step out of such a part last season. He isn't right for this one, either: he plays a farce role with quite un-comic intensity. But the play does have a certain breeziness and three talented comediennes-Audrey Christie, Vicki Cummings, Enid Markey. They are cio match, however, for a sagging play and an actor who keeps spoiling his jokes...
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) was a 20th Century composer with 18th Century ambitions. In most of his 13 operas (best known: The Jewels of the Madonna, Secret of Suzanne), he aimed for classic form and comic elegance. At his best, he came close to being the poor man's Mozart; at his broadest, a kind of roughhewn Rossini. Last week he was Manhattan's newest opera...
...vision faded. Instead of the Stadium, grieved. Vag sitting in front of the new, giant two-foot screen. Vag drinking a glass of the sponsor's beer. Young Vag reading a comic book in the near-dark, asking Vag to turn it off, or get a better show. Vag watching Hopalong...
...size Will Rogers to the TV screen. Shriner, a transplanted Hoosier, has most of the master's mannerisms, from the errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beneath all the imitative layers is a distinct and often funny Shriner personality, which shows to good...
...every copy was sold out in a few days), but suspected that Barrie had written it himself. Since those days, The Young Visiters has sold more than 150,000 copies in Britain, some 50,000 in the U.S. There are still many who cannot be convinced that its hilariously comic effects owe nothing to mature artistry, everything to the vivid imagination of brilliant innocence. New readers may judge for themselves by trying the new edition...