Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S bet on Comic Morgan was across the board-to win, place, or show...
...Oscar. He has a great name, but never let him get near the stage." At Columbia, Oscar got good grades in his law courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they had offered me $20, I would have forgotten all about...
...sizable bill of particulars could be drawn up against High Button Shoes: much of the score is commonplace, most of the lyrics are mediocre and great gobs of the humor fall flat. But the show has a redeeming bounce; it has a good comic (when he has good comedy) in Actor Silvers; it has a girl with looks and personality in Nanette Fabray. Most of all, it has a brilliant choreographer in Jerome Robbins (On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). Robbins' best offering: a hilarious Mack Sennett ballet which grows into a masterpiece of controlled pandemonium...
...juggles his ubiquitous cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...
...scenario for the initial film has been completed under the direction of Roemer, who was assisted by Ulric G. Neisser '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48. Alden described the script as a "comic fantasy, tentatively entitled, 'Touch of the Times,' which will utilize local scenery whenever possible." Most of the Veritas shooting will be done outdoors, he added...