Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Sunday News, which has the most readers in the U.S. (circ. 4,650,000) makes certain assumptions about them: 1) they are literate enough to read picture captions and comic balloons; 2) they are baseball fans; 3) they savvy cop talk. These assumptions underlay a News headline last week...
Ford Show (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Songstress Dinah Shore, Comic Peter Lind Hayes and, of late weeks, a much-improved script...
...also suffered somewhat from the mediocrity of several of his singers. Robert Gay and Francis Barnard in the leading male roles of the Count and Figaro, respectively, lacked both the force and training essential to good Mozartean baritones. Luigi Vellucci, however, surprised with superb performances in two roles, the comic ones of Basilio and Curzio...
...Friday program showed the Symphony on its brighter side, thus completing the puzzle for the audience. In the suite from the Prokofieff ballet "Chout", Burgin had chosen something off the beaten track but at the same time eminently worthwhile and interesting. The suite catches amazingly well the comic characteristics of this very humorous ballet, written by the man who must be considered the leading humorist among the world's composers. Burgin's interpretation added considerably to the effect. Here he had displayed originality of choice and accomplished performance at once...
First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...