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Nevertheless, the gag rule in Baltimore was dead. And the Supreme Court had, in effect, upheld the right of a free press over what the Baltimore judges considered the rights of an individual...
What lifts Tight Little Island above its own high mark of insular drollery, and turns its chuckles into laughs, is its mastery of the visual gag. The picture moves quietly but surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...
Profit & Loss. Howard had been secretly dickering for the Sun since last January. Whenever rumors of a sale circulated, Publisher Thomas W. Dewart doused them with a standard gag: "The Sun is for sale for 5? a copy, on any newsstand-and in no other way." The deal was completed on Dec. 1, but announcement was delayed so Sun staffers could enjoy Christmas. Estimated price for the Sun's "name, good will and circulation lists," but not its plant in Lower Manhattan...
When Ross had offered his last crumb of inconsequential news and the gag had been played to death, Reporter Truman talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...
York on their TV set. The plotless show consisted entirely of Goodman's and Jane's comments on the film, of her misinterpretations of the obvious and his exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24! And where are the Indians today!" Jane: "Playing baseball for Cleveland." Future shows will have only such subsidiary characters as an eight-year-old all-white West Highland terrier named Blackie and Ace's complaining, cliché-ridden mother-in-law (played by Betty Garde...