Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared to the brilliant whimsy of the Don and his squire Sancho. Not only do individual comic touches, like the army of sheep and the little bassoon sketch of two Benedictine monks, rank in subtlety above anything in Till, but the entire score, including some of the loveliest and most poignant pages, is pervaded with little twists of humor that appreciably deepen the total effect...
...editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting entirely of the names of Russian composers...
...There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...
Burgess Meredith as Mr. Astaire's collegiate rival in trumpet playing and Goddard-wooing reveals a new fact of his screen personality. The star of Winterset may object to playing trivial comic roles, but to his credit he does it well...