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Most of the laughs in The Milky Way are products of its actors rather than its authors. Assisting Mr. O'Connell, one of the funniest white men on the stage, are droll William Foran and a brash young woman named Gladys George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...droll was the President's comment: "We Russians are working slowly and trying to work faster. You Americans are working fast and trying to slow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Front Man's First | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...Amourette, Playwright Kummer usually exhibits flash and speed if not power and drive. Having absolutely nothing to say, she nevertheless manages to say it pleasantly, and her latest piece, dealing with the young Farrars of Homewood, N. J., is additionally brightened by the return from Hollywood of droll Roland Young and crack-brained Laura Hope Crews. Ned Farrar (Mr. Young) is an irresponsible husband who "makes just enough not to get along on," loses his job, accepts a position as handyman in the home of his wife's rich aunt (Miss Crews). This lady, unaware of his identity, takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...prelude in which a man (Leslie Adams, the droll cuckold of Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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