Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter-day and considerably less-than-life-size Will Rogers to the TV screen. Shriner, a transplanted Hoosier, has most of the master's mannerisms, from the errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beneath all the imitative layers is a distinct and often...
Such captions would look long-winded in today's New Yorker, but they were standard for its first jokes in 1925. Then Editor Harold Ross learned to trim the words and let the picture do its share. His one-line caption cartoons have set the style of U.S. humor in the last two decades. This week, in The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, the magazine took a lingering backward glance at the fun it has had with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor...
Anyone who respects an original idea such as atomic duck eggs will be tempted to see "Mr. Drake's Duck." Unfortunately, he will find little originality and less humor in Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s web-footed producing and acting...
Producer Michael Balcon (Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets) has turned out a picture in the best tradition of satirical good humor. Alec Guinness, recently the victim of six murders in Kind Hearts, makes a thoroughly satisfactory criminal mastermind. Though remaining British to the core, he somehow achieves an almost Latin intensity in his role of a little man in happy revolt against society...
...18th Century plot, 19th Century music, and 20th Century libretto, has come to Boston again, and despite its second-string cast it is as effervescent as ever. The Metropolitan Opera Association's money-making venture pleased (and shocked) the large opening night crowd with lilting tunes and broad humor seldom presented on the operatic stage...