Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that even his admirable technical skill and control of such details as his hands, could not quite create a convincing aged man. The contrast to the rather pale followers who inevitably surrounded him made his polished performance slightly too heavy for the play, although he succeeded completely in any comic passages. Mij Gohr, playing his wife, was sensitive and graceful, giving a quiet impression of sensitive acting; she was also, however, a bit frozen. As Sonia, Charlotte Clark looked believable, but stood rather rigidly, often in awkward closeness to others on stage. Her face occasionally wandered...
...more than matched by Dan Dailey's portrayal of her actor-husband. Tony Randall clowns through the film with just the right amount of buffoonery as a slightly screwy patient whom the doctor discovers has had an affair with his fiancee. Mr. Randall has a wonderful sense of comic gesture and expression...
...actors thoroughly enjoyed convincing us that love is hindered neither by sincerity nor by some calculation. Everthing turns out well in the end and M. Barrault as the well-meaning troublemaker, Dubois, was at his best relying on mime and expressive gestures. There is a clear and consistent comic freedom in the Marivaux which allowed the company to show off its virtuoso technique...
...Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr, who rechristened his wards The Shenanigan Kids for the duration, even had the kids go to court to swear that they hailed from The Netherlands...
...vastly exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced by cornet, clarinet and trombone. From there, the album ranges over various jazz styles-blues, swing, cool-and reaches a high point with Fats Waller's full-chorded, stomping piano playing and lowdown comic singing. Decca's four-record Encyclopedia of Jazz covers much the same ground, with one LP devoted to each of the last four decades. Among its best offerings: a 1927 recording of Johnny Dodds's Black Bottom Stompers in Wild Man Blues, displaying Trumpeter Louis Armstrong as sideman...