Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never keep his left-tinted ideology clear of his work. this is no exception. Welles' Scots mutter dialectical materialism through their scraggly beards, and he has cluttered up Shakespeare's often excellent plot with a large amount of irrelevant detail. To top everything off, Welles has introduced a comic gravedigger and a moving forest. Stay clear of this one; it is at Boston's Copley Theatre...
...Salesman Lee, who died in 1934, also ran his custom body-shop to turn out the gold-trim and other gewgaws fancied by filmdom's elite. Among them: a $50,000 body on a Rolls-Royce chassis for Comic Fatty Arbuckle...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...
...comic histories of famous people have been written through the ages. One of the least comic of them is Will Cuppy's "The Decline and Full of Practically Everybody." Published posthumously (Cuppy died a year ago), the book illustration the decline and fill of practically nobody but Will Cuppy...
...Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green) write with intelligence, wit and moral purpose. They are deeply concerned with the world and its fate. But they can seldom dig into the insides of ordinary human experience, reveling in its meat and marrow, the way the old boys did. By comparison with the comic expansiveness of a Dickens or the moody intensity of a Hardy, they seem merely to be giving life a quick, light-fingered skim...