Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Kaufman plays, its crises are epigrammatic rather than emotional-is counteracted by its novel background and its general impudence. It is further notable for being Verree Teasdale's (Mrs. Aaolphe Menjou) first picture since her serious illness in October 1936. Her blonde coloring makes her a handsome foil to the darkling insipidity of Kay Francis, whom she outplays in their scenes together...
...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...
...Foil: Cranston F. Jones '40, Albert H. Labastie '40, W. Scott Long, Jr., '39 and Robert O. Miller...
Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...
...professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer in Punjab, a law student, editor, lecturer on Xray. He has also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute" at Malaga, N. J., which claims to cure diseases by colors and light rays...