Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comic opera of Edward Holton James and his Red Shirts is moving creakily into the third act. Mr. James has been playing Hitler for three months, and he has sung the second act finale with all the finesse of one who has read deep in "Mein Kampf", which Mr. James has told his supporters is "the greatest human document ever written." But Mr. James's singing is flat, his song trite, and his supporting cast a handful of hams...
...taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...
When John Held, Jr., author and cartoonist who created Marge, the immortal roaring twenties flapper of comic strip fame, began his three month residence in Adams House yesterday, the University for the first time placed before the undergraduates a chance to work with a seasoned and well-known artist...
...Comic Fred Allen's self-written weekly scripts are regularly combed for libel, slander, offense to tender sensibilities. But now & then, despite radio's stout guarding, Allen manages to sink a punch line into some touchy solar plexus. He has never been sued for anything he has said on the air, but this season he has set a-storming: 1) Philadelphia's hotelkeepers, because of a crack about the size and appointments of Philadelphia hotel rooms; 2) the drug-store trade, over a yarn about a would-be pharmacist who "flunked in chow mein...
...coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...