Word: comics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck...
Launched by a Milanese comic-book publishing house after World War II, the first fumetto magazine, Grand Hotel, was simply a serialized cartoon romance. In 1947 a competitive firm substituted live models, posed them before a camera, and the fumetti art form was fixed...
...movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which is of no special interest; Lewis W.Lehman's lights are excellent, as are Esther Small's costumes...
...main interest is the current theater, comedy in particular; and he feels there is definitely something wrong with the comic stage in America. "Neither the writers nor the actors seem to have a sense of 'style' in the theater. The English have a great and persistent tradition for high comedy--drawing-room comedy--and they manage the right blend of elegance and finish and wit in their plays and also in their productions. Here, we just don't have the tradition, and there are too many other pressures on the theater...