Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, New York Yankee fans have been treated to the rough & ready English of Dizzy Dean and the schoolboy precision of Joe DiMaggio, who even read his interviews from scripts. Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown...
...Comic Brown, as resolute a baseball fan as ever fumbled a grounder, used to fly to Florida each spring to work out with the Yankees, and has been in & out of the locker rooms of half the teams across the nation. He has made three baseball movies (Fireman Save My Child, Elmer the Great, Alibi Ike), and his contract with
...Sacred Ibis any where except on the Lampoon tower is not a subject for humour," funnyman John H. Updike stated last night. "The CRIMSON pranksters seems to have forgotten the rights of property. It's deplorable that they've carried collage jokes into the arena of international relations," comic Updike added...
...were aware of the relationship between Miss Russell and Hazel Washington, a charming Negro woman who entered the employ of the actress over a decade ago as a maid and subsequently became a business partner . . . This friendship, plus the many instances of charitable endeavor you cited in "The Comic Spirit," is the basis for an award to be presented to Miss Russell ... for her contributions in the field of human relations...
...Unfortunately, there is also a screenplay. Too vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named Gregory. With its sleighrides, ice-skating parties and other Technicolored bucolics, By the Light of the Silvery Moon is so relentlessly wholesome that moviegoers may wish for the Dead End kids to drop...