Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the shorter material, there is a clear precis of the Club 100 affairs, called "Victory Over Discrimination." Comic relief comes in the form of a parody of literary criticism. The belabored humor only goes to show once more that The Progressive shouldn't mess around with such things...
Whether Evans himself comes off so well beside his refurbished cast is a debatable point. In the incomparable conversational scenes he carries the counterpoint off very well, the satiric and comic lines coming through especially effectively. In the soliloquies, however, the incredible monotony of Evans' style, his constant reliance on purely vocal effects rather than any real acting techniqque, and the annoyingly false diction which leads him to pronounce words like "force" as "fawwwce" all begin to annoy...
Many a U.S. citizen, stoutly convinced that only a Briton could laugh at a British joke, was unknowingly doing it himself last week. A pantomime comic strip called Louie, a month after its U.S. invasion, was already in 28 newspapers, including the Milwaukee Journal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Oakland Tribune...
This week, 14 George Foster Peabody Awards (radio's annual "Oscars") were handed out. The chief winners: ABC's Comic Henry Morgan, CBS's Columbia Workshop, NBC's Orchestras of the Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System-which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program...
That is about all there is to the story. Comic relief and pathos are added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news...