Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lesser the character, the meaner the line, as when the King of the Beggars says to Gringoire, "Good intentions never put an onion in your soup." And showing the effects of spotty scripting, the beggars' hangman, deprived of Gringoire's neck, laments, "It was such a nice neck." Comic relief of this sort seems out of place...
Done with the usual Disney care for detail and sense of comic pace, and with more than the usual share of good visual surprises, the cartoon reaches a most un-Disney-like climax in a fine burst of political irreverence...
...case, old smoothie Bill Dennis, a high scorer on the trope for the past two seasons, will play the here; cast as the villain is Harry Sacks, whose driving style picks up fouls and enabled him to set an Ivy League free threw record last year. Comic relief will come from Paul Shaw, who, when hot, boasts a deadly overhead set shot...
...Mead. Although the Solares relatives sing, screech, and dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...
...with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central Asia, Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan diener, as the Wazir's errant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings." ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger in Paradise," the most successful hybrid...