Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted to impeach Pittsburgh's comic Democratic Mayor McNair, to investigate Democratic Governor Earle's beclouded administration...
Across the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey, sitting high and cinematic on the Palisades, is Ben Marden's ornate million-dollar Riviera. Its show, gaudy and gay but clean as one of Beau Brummell's neckcloths, has routine ballet and crooning, a panting jitterbug fest, Comic Joe Lewis, who-after rusticating most of the evening-goes to town at the end, and Mary Raye and Naldi, whose beautiful dancing steals the show...
...Comedy of Errors was shown this season when Rodgers & Hart found it the snag in their otherwise delightful The Boys from Syracuse. But the Old Globe's The Taming of the Shrew picks up enormously by having Kate take the count within 45 minutes, becomes, indeed, an exuberant comic-strip courtship. Best of the four productions is A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before the Duke. To many in the first-night audience, Shakespeare seemed almost as good as Billy Rose's Aquacade...
...obtains justice, no one cares very much, even though it seems that Alexander is awarded one-fifth of all the stock of Western Union for his invention. All this may have been very important at the time but nowadays it makes for pretty innocuous entertainment. Henry Fonda furnishes adequate comic relief, and the rest of the supporting cast strives valiantly to make a poorly presented story interesting. But the odds are too great. All in all, Mr. Bell deserves something better than this...