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...mouth is rather amusing, too." The scene changes and a "Lord Fisher" says to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "We are very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What a droll coincidence!" Working overtime last week was Germany's English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that...
Aside from being too long and too silly, Yokel Boy is very fair entertainment. Comes Love should join the season's song hits. The chorus looks good and dances better. Judy Canova is an admirably droll musicomedy Sis Hopkins who flops only when she confuses herself with Bea Lillie. Yokel Boy Buddy Ebsen can use his feet. Tiny, titillating Dixie Dunbar can use her body. And Phil Silvers clowns convincingly as a loud, long-fingered Hollywood agent...
...complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll U. S. cinema My Man Godfrey...
...humor of these proceedings. Less prejudiced cinemaddicts may feel that the comic possibilities of its trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people in America aren't French...
...removed a painful thorn from a lion's paw, which caused the lion, when they met again in the Roman arena, to fall upon his neck instead of his limbs, has come a long way. A generation ago Shaw put the fable into play form as a droll picture of the early Christian martyrs and a juggling act on religion. Last week the Federal Theatre, seeing in Shaw's play "a pertinent dramatic discourse upon the problem of world minorities," produced it in Harlem, as a Negro problem play, with an all-Negro cast...