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...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...
Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...regained a bit of the nimbleness his knobby hands were famed for, had set to work painting sprightly watercolors and oils of his new surroundings. Dufy's New England looked rosy as his view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were...
...Paul Hartman have learned to make an even better joke of themselves. They can still execute demented fandangos. In one scene, she is a madly determined Carmen to his befuddled Don José. They are most consistently amusing as a trademarked stage couple, she babbling, he blundering, she all fizz, he all curdle. Beyond that, there is Grace's invincible likeableness...
Since 1937, when Bemelmans uncorked his private stock of anecdote in My War with the United States, he has been showing his sugarwater imitators how it's done. Yet none have been able to match his polite gurgle, his discreet fizz; and none have provided so charming a label as his sketches, or been so deft at dabbing up little literary excesses before they make a mark...