Word: funnier
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...Poon, Harvard's funny magazine is getting funnier and funnier, for its cartoon of the month showed the Ibis, 'Poonsters' idol, being shot out of the sky by one of the magazine's many hot shots...
...contrast to the recent run of heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film out of the Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent than the rest of the cast, the pet monkey really stars. With his ability to steal pancakes only equalled by his talent in throwing apples, the half-pint ape has no trouble in making a monkey out of Haley...
...great interest in radio, but radio would be a cultural influence for the natives. A half-dozen bumptious young men of God arrived a few years ago, and tried to recruit the rest of the mission staff for Naziism. But what-if the stories were true- could be funnier than a potbellied native youngster, ramming out his hand in a ludicrous Heil? The few Australian colonials at Salamaua, Lae and Port Moresby found it very hard to worry about Finschhafen...
...adventures isn't anything startlingly new, nor should it be. Instead, Nick and Nora Charles amuse themselves and the audience in their accustomed breezy fashion. All of the superb minor characterizations are present here again, and while you may have seen them before, you've never seen them funnier...
...corrode stands on its own feet and night have been better handled by a comedian less typed than Benny and more suited to the role. Sans Rochester, sans his usual gags, Benny with much enthusiasm and little natural ability does an acceptable job. But he personally, has been funnier in other pictures; and, funny as "Charley's Aunt" is, it has been more hilariously produced with a less pretentious cast...