Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featured comedian, succeeds in milking a number of laughs from such standard skits as the phone booth routine, the twice-rented hotel room and the wishing wand gimmick. Harmon, who walks on his heels and wields an educated cane in the best W. C. Fields manner, salvages the comic aspects of the show...
...human documentary of the airborne supply of a Soviet-blockaded Berlin.* It spins the hard facts smoothly into what is essentially a story of individual Americans and Germans. It catches the raillery and workaday heroism of the U.S. air crews, as well as some sharp vignettes, both grim and comic, of life in a broken, hungry city. Its camera work does full justice to the brooding ruins of Berlin and to graceful C-545 gliding dangerously down to a fog-shrouded Tempelhof field...
Sadie Hawkins Day was originated in the "L'il Abner comic strip...
...Kohn and Ailene Pressman, in the roles of Count Almaviva and Susanne, give animated, completely enjoyable performances. John Kerr, as the hero, Figaro, is far too subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...
...years ago, troubled by the crime-crammed, sexy comic books his eight-year-old daughter brought home, Vicar Morris asked himself why comic-book techniques could not be used "to spread decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders...