Word: daffyness
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There's a Cat in the Tuba, which won the $750 citywide song contest, had just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some...
One day last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid...
Cluny Brown (20th Century-Fox), the mildly daffy niece (Jennifer Jones) of an English plumber, can't keep her helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when...
The daffy Daley was clowning on the four-a-day before anybody had heard very much of such loudmouths as Martha Raye and Betty Hutton. When the Fitch Bandwagon hired Cass as a summer replacement in 1945, the radio studio was filled with her admirers. To gain these old fans...
The thing is partly delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood...