Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this gritty, parched, uncertain warfare Italy and Britain were plunged deep last week. This campaign, which the British seemed inclined to treat as comic opera and the Italians as the biggest thing since Julius Caesar, was potentially as important to World War II as the still possible invasion of the United Kingdom by the Germans...
...morning in 1938 Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times glanced over the comics running in that day's editions, noted that of eleven strips, ten dealt with fist fights, murder, domestic quarrels, fear, theft, despair, deception, torture, arson, death. Publisher Roberts sat down and wrote an indignant editorial. Then he began to look for a comic strip to appeal to children...
...proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased...
Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...
Wistful as Chaplin, baggy in the rear, Cantinflas is rated the finest comic Mexico has yet produced. To the Government he is an annoying fellow. A few weeks ago in the course of rehearsing a revue he introduced an acid skit on Mexican election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies...