Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which looks (in Comic Joe E. Lewis' phrase) as if it had been "designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong." On the stages the big ones are there: Maurice Chevalier ($15,000 a week), Jack Benny ($20,000), Jimmy Durante ($15,000), Sammy Davis Jr. ($25,000), Judy Garland ($25,000). Miami's total...
...story, he is a nobody, but he has a spiv's eye for survival, the derisive eloquence of a shameless man and the bogus kind of face that, as he suggests, would go well on a butler or a bishop. As Author Linklater tells it in his savagely comic novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned you. No more than Clive...
...Smithies is suited to this rhetorical, ironic drama; he knows how to shape a long speech for maximum effect, and how to deliver a comic line without breaking the tension of a serious scene. Antigone calls Creon a "cook" in the "kitchen of politics," but she cannot realize how a man can be unheroic and still a king; Mr. Smithies, in more than one sense, has the requisite authority. Perhaps Antigone is not supposed to be a play primarily about Creon and the problem of a professional monarch, but without twisting the script noticeably out of shape, Mr. Smithies contrives...
...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...
Sigmund spent Christmas and Easter vacations on the continent with Stan Miles, now senior tutor at Dunster, the first in Italy and the second in Spain. "It was really comic opera in Spain. There were four of us--all over six feet--and our luggage, all loaded in Stan's Morris Minor. The unloading process resembled a circus act, and occasionally small crowed gathered to watch...