Word: cowardly
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...each play Coward masters a different type of humor, the first, slapstick, the second, strict dialogue, and last, absurd situation. because deft, definitive character portrayal makes the film, the abilities of the actors are paramount, and direction by the author, though quite adequate, is of secondary importance. The acting is clever and witty, fitting perfectly Mr. Coward's lines...
Perhaps if it rained more in Southern California, there would be a little competition for British film comedy. As it is, Tonight at 8:30 so far outstrips any effort on the American scene that comparison is impossible. Imported to the screen from a Noel Coward production, the film presents three unrelated one act plays, "The Red Pepers," "Fumed Oak," and "Ways and Means," any one worth the price of admission...
...friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with a pre-dinner coconut milk hour and post dinner coach shell fingerbowls. The total effect is Robinson Crusoc as revised by Noel Coward...
...unlike Coward, author Andre Roussin is no master of sustained dialogue, so the humor comes in quick thrusts and two line jokes. Many of the laughs derive from wryly incongruous lines in the accent and style made familiar to America by Ealing Studios. In the present case, Henry first stuns Philip with the news that Susan has been keeping open house in her bedroom for the past six years, then says to the ashen cuckold in clipped syllables, "I hope you're not upset, old boy." Now, there obviously can be only so much of that particular type of nonsense...
...those who like a cozy novel with a basically predictable outcome, there is Elizabeth Goudge's The Heart of the Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...