Word: drollness
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...court-appointed receiver, Harry Moore, said that Estes' own unverified books indicated debts of $38,387,935 and assets of $20,793,155. Estes was ordered to present a plan by June 15 for paying off his creditors. Droll Judge R. Ewing Thomason, 83, looked down at Estes' creditors, found a bit of wry humor in their predicament. "About all you'd have left is the newspaper,'' observed the judge. "But I'm sure you won't need that, with all the publicity you are getting." Billie Sol smiled for the first time...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead in A Man for Oona, the story of a mother's droll search for a husband for her daughter...
...best, Author Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling...
Died. Anton Otto Fischer, 80, preeminent U.S. illustrator of sea stories (including the Saturday Evening Post's Tugboat Annie and Colin Glencannon series), a droll, Bavarian-born artist who acquired his blue water palette during eight youthful years on windjammers; of a heart attack; in Woodstock...
...current New York production has, like most things of lasting value, elicited mixed reviews initially. Howard Taubman of the Times found the play "funny, weird, stageworthy and nonsensical.... If you don't insist on a full measure of sense, Mr. Kopit has a fanciful, droll, lurid way with the theatre." In his follow-up Sunday piece Taubman voiced some reservations about the script, such as that it "has its share of irrelevancies that fall into no pattern of communication," but he concluded that Kopit "may become an important playwright...