Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with D. B. Wyndham Lewis (no kin), humorist and biographer (Francois Villon...
...lurks behind Noel-Noel's serious delivery all through the film that jokes or situations are great fun when, if handled less adroitly, they might be merely embarrassing or in poor taste. The secret is in the author's imagination even more than in his camera. Since any brilliant humorist could do as well, it is important to see this picture before the usual humorists take over again...
...successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer from Kent, Michael Cox, seemed to have both Spouse Sponsor Jenner (real name: Heather Cox) and Humorist Potter one-down. In a forthright, lifemanly ploy, Farmer Cox sued Heather for divorce on grounds of adultery (uncontested), named Stephen Potter as corespondent...
...cartoons syndicated to U.S. newspapers, few are more true to life than "The Neighbors." And few cartoonists work harder for realism than George Clark, 51, the short (5 ft. 6 in.), rumpled creator of "The Neighbors." Instead of a belly laugh, Humorist Clark tries for a smile, or at most a chuckle. This folksy, low-key humor has made the cartoon so popular that last week it was being syndicated to some 150 newspapers, from Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Argus Leader. It is George Clark's fond hope that every reader...
...stage device, it is yet a striking symbol for his whole lost, seeking, itinerant world. The peripheral figure remains the central one in Inge's gallery. But in Bus Stop there are integrated figures also; the shadows are interlaced with sunlight, the naturalistic brooder is absorbed into the humorist. The difference between the two plays is also partly one of production. Where Picnic so stressed theatrical values as to ossify human ones, Bus Stop, under Harold Clurman's understanding direction, seamlessly blends the two. Despite deeper entanglements, Picnic was all surfaced glare; Bus Stop, for all its outward...