Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precisely patterned for some tastes, this comic romp has some appealing and cunningly devised ensemble passages, some adroit characterizations, and the fascination of genius trembling on the verge of its true career...
...head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha Falls. Last year Spilhaus' friend, William Steven, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, hit on the idea of harnessing this awesome flow by getting the learned professor to do a scientific comic strip. As a result, a Spilhaus-scripted strip, Our New Age, now appears weekly in 102 U.S. and 19 foreign newspapers. The professor earns about $193 a week, and thousands of Americans are being instructed and entertained by one of the most torrential personalities of U.S. higher learning...
...July 22 The Dave King Show (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Summer fun and games with the top banana on Britain's comic stalk. Color...
Awake and dreaming, Tanner-Don Juan is one of the greatest comic roles in the modern theatre. Its difficulty is compounded by the fact that though Tanner is the hero of the play and Don Juan its most eloquent spokesman, both of them, Tanner especially, serve also as satiric butts. Tanner may preach the Life Force, but the pursuing woman embodies the Life Force, which sweeps the protesting Tanner into her arms "as a sailor throws a scrap of fish into the mouth of a seabird...
Barry Morse plays Tanner at Wellesley with all the elegant arts of a skilled high-comic actor. It is a brilliant, slick performance, full of gaiety and verve and a fast-talking grace reminiscent of Noel Coward. Mr. Morse is admirable as the quarry of the love-chase, the baffled and laughed-at talker, but there is more to the character than the excitable little man he gives us. The "Olympian majesty" specified by Shaw is missing; Tanner's magnificent brashness becomes mere cheek. Mr. Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed...