Word: humor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are few comic concessions, but there is sly humor in Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning...
...talks on & on-about the need to develop new inventions, the need to build 550,000 new houses, how much more employment was provided by the aggressive commercial development of the gasoline engine than by the land grants. This leads them to report that he has no sense of humor...
...handful of U. S. doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him. Only attempt at humor in the whole spate of U. S. medical journals is the collection of stale, smutty jokes which have trailed with dismal repetition through the Journal's "Tonics and Sedatives" column for the past 20 years...
...provocative discussion of the theory and practice of art by an American painter of unquestionable ability. . . Bellamy Partridge's "Country Lawyer" reconstructs an interesting side of rural life in an older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science...
...imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst. But the spontaneity seems a little forced, the pace, jokes and charm a little grimly predetermined...