Word: comically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, the play is no more than a character sketch of the memorable Sally Bowles. Van Druten's efforts to dramatize other elements of Isherwood's portrait--particularly the plight of Jews in a Germany rotting with Naziism--are remarkably unimaginative. And less significant diversions--the American millionaire, the comic landlady--are written and played as stereotypes. Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps from the book as Miss Harris sweeps on to the stage with a garish pink scarf, a long cigarette holder...
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "Iolanthe," will be the next feature of the Winthrop House Musical Society, Allan D. Miller '55, producer of the presentation, announced last night...
...there are several entries on the debit side. Too often the show sacrifices the cast's varied comedy talents to dull, sentimental numbers stuck in for change of pace. Because the tone of the revue is irrepressibly comic these interludes are rarely effective. "Nanty Puts Her Hair Up" and June Carroll's "Guess Who I Saw Today" are examples of numbers too delicate to survive their boisterous surrounding...
...star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific" to "extraordinarily charming" and "thoroughly delightful...
Raymond Radiguet, whose masterpiece, Count d'Orgel, is published this week in the U.S., was a literary prodigy. He was born near Paris in 1903, one of a large tribe of children sired by a cartoonist for the Paris comic magazine Le Rire. Of his mother Radiguet once said: "I don't know very well what her face looked like. She was always tying shoelaces...