Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amsterdam, a radio and television comic, will ply his usual rapid-fire line of gags and ad libs...
Donald Cook manages to make something quite comic out of his Southern boozehound. His acting is a line job of underplaying and exact timing. If the other stars had the same energetic approach things might be a little more interesting. Neva Patterson appears briefly as a Conover model. Miss Patterson is not only a dazzling woman but a fine actress, and it's too bad that she has been given a part that is poorly written...
...Fridolin; produced by Fri-dolin Productions in association with Lee & J. J. Shubert) brought Canada's most popular comic to Broadway. Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) rose to fame through a series of revues (TIME, March 19, 1945), then wrote Ti-Coq, which he has performed-in French and English-for some 2½ years. A negligible play, it was a less than inspired vehicle, closed after three performances...
...characterization and realism is strongest in his treatment of the lower classes, and it is here that the comedy draws its chief interest. The high-flown poetry of Part I is absent, and it is left up to the actors themselves to develop Shakespeare's rough drafts of the comic characters. This is the Brattle staff does with consummate skill...
...other comic characters are all foils to Falstaff, and many, are treated as caricatures rather than as characterizations. Bardolph, whose "zeal burns in his nose," and Doll Tearsheet, "as common as the way between St. Alban's and London," both get inspired treatment. The other comic characters join vigorously in the numerous brawls, and seem to get a good deal...