Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With characters like Mr. and Mrs. Cherry Owen or the fussy Widow Ogmore-Pritchard ("Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes"), Thomas allows more individuality and they reciprocate by adding the lusty strength and humor which make the play memorable...
Parodists have a tremendous advantage over ordinary run of the mill humor writers. People will laugh at their stuff even if it is only vaguely good, so long as they feel at least two jumps ahead of the parodee...
...followed them, had his first show in Alexandria. Now he lives on the Italian island of Ischia, painting dreamlike scenes from "a world that is forever gone and finished." His pictures are filled with sculptured formal gardens, marble statuary, gay toy balloons-and a fine, whimsical sense of humor. In Reverie, a classic marble statue, all played out from sailing a paper boat, lies sleeping near a river, still clutching in one hand a red string attached to the boat. In Tinned, Prince Henry packs delicate, dew-fresh red roses in a sardine can. Says he: "Today everything gets...
...humor of Hope as a balcony acrobat, for instance, has to be shown, even on the screen, more by what he says than in what he does. Give him a good line and he can throw it away with the electric unconcern of a stripper discarding the semifinal spangle, but it is not much fun when there is nothing in the line worth noticing. Typical Casanova gag line: ''Women are like oranges. When you've squeezed one. you've squeezed them...
Knock on Wood (Paramount), like Casanova, fails to fit a famous odd peg into the rectangular hole of the screen, but it is a much more entertaining try. The trouble with Danny Kaye as a movie comedian is that his humor is almost too graphic to photograph. Give him the wide-open spaces of a theater stage and like the prairie flower, he keeps growing wilder every hour. But confine him to the camera's cold, Technicolored eye and take away the living audience that gives him his reason for spreeing. and Kaye is not much better than...