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...days, you at least played devil's advocate to republicanism; now you are the canonizer of monarchy. Not that we on this side of the border do not appreciate your tribute to our late King and your admiration of our monarchical institution. But it is, to us, a droll confirmation of Shaw's statement that America would sue for inclusion in the British Empire...
Leon was a droll and imaginative fellow, the bored guards agreed. The French police had first become acquainted with Léon's imagination six years before, after they had found the nude body of a White Russian countess lying in the Paris-Brussels road. The countess, who had been strangled with a nylon stocking, was known to have left Brussels with a young French medical officer named Count Vernier de Miraumont. The police finally found the man practicing gynecology in occupied Germany. They soon learned that he was neither a count, a doctor, an officer nor a Frenchman...
...book is too cute and commonplace; the tunes seem reminiscent even when they are sprightly; the lyrics have an arid cleverness. And though George Balanchine is a superb "serious" choreographer, his dances here suggest a few bright ideas plus a farewell wave of the hand. Joe E. Brown is droll and likable; and with a stylish, skittish-spinsterish ditty called Golden Moment, Carmen Mathews stops the show...
Last March Usborne suggested the mysterious question to London's Spectator as a topic for its Competition, a resolutely droll contest in which readers submit humorous essays and verse on set subjects. Spectator readers sailed off on a sea of whimsey, concocting hypotheses. One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion...
...Milkman (Universal-International) is a cheerful little musicomedy without enough ingenuity to support its good intentions. It has a droll notion of treating milkmen as an elite corps with pride, traditions and loyalties roughly approximating those of the U.S. Military Academy. Jimmy Durante cuts a fine figure of a milkman's milkman, and Recruit Donald O'Connor burns to win the right to take his girl strolling down Buttermilk Lane (the dairy's Flirtation Walk...