Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show itself was one of the highlights of a drama-studded week. In telling the story of a husband bedeviled by the ghost of his first wife (and then of his second wife), Coward got notable support from Mildred Natwick, who played a zany medium with all the comic zest she had brought to the part in its Broadway opening some 15 years ago. Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall, as the materializing wives, looked their parts more adequately than they played them, and Actress Bacall sometimes seemed uneasy when reciting the litany of her infidelities, as if she expected...
...Tiger, adapted from a short story by Adman David Levy. It was a plunge deep into the Madison Avenue jungle, where admen fight for accounts, TV comedians fight for prestige and the small fry of television fight for their very existence. Keenan Wynn was the comic whose ratings have begun to slip and Melvyn Douglas the account executive who had risen to a vice-presidency on the comic's back and now decides it is time to get off. The flaw in the play was that none of the characters were virtuous enough to be morally sympathetic or villainous...
Author Jhabvala gets comic sparks out of the cultural short circuits when East plugs in on West, e.g., a professor bent on art criticism ("His use of green for trees is especially remarkable"). Best of all, everyday life bustles through the pages of Amrita with all the clatter, chatter and haggling delight of an Eastern bazaar...
Died. Ham (Hammond Edward) Fisher, 54, creator of the comic strip Joe Palooka; by his own hand, in Manhattan...
Diabolique. A wonderful little horror comic in French-with a moral: you can lead a corpse to water, but you can't make it sink (TIME...