Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same gag, turned now against the Communist big shots, had been chortled over many times in Central Europe in the early part of this century, when it was told to describe the future of emigrants to the capitalistic...
...Gootenberg '49, president of the Liberal Union, said he thought it was a gag. "They are a lunatic fringe," Gootenberg opined, "that doesn't represent Harvard opinion any more than the HYD does." He added, however, that "any new group that works in the open" is a healthy sign...
Happily the film has its redeeming features--to be specific, Martyn Green, Sidney Granville, and the D'Oyly Carte Chorus. Known to every loyal Saveyard, oldtimers Green and Granville don't seem to mind the cameras at all; a gag's a gag, and these two know how to use one. Sydney Granville, as Pooh-Bah, looks more like Friar Tuck than Lord High Everything Else, but he plays the part for all its' worth. As for Martyn Green, anyone who has ever seen the man in action knows that the show could rock and he'd still save...
Special note must be made of the Princeton "half-time stunt." The public address system listed some eight organizations as sponsors and perpetrators of the gag. It concerned a model building, Santa Claus, two tigers, some funny money, and the clangings of a cash register...
Russell is trying to take the gag-man up on his guarantee to make good any give-away prize missed because the listener is tuned to his program...