Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sight Unseen. In Buffalo, James O. Meyers bought a roll of film just to humor a business acquaintance, discovered when he finally got around to borrowing a projector that one scene showed his son at Salerno...
...rogue. But he has been only half of the show. The other half is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice). Time and familiarity have some what dulled Snooks, but Morgan, pinching the girls with the tone of his voice, has grown with his own infectiously timed brand of not-too-naughty humor. Says he, confiding his nautical experiences: "I al ways like to have some port in every sweetheart...
...Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick "humor" and distorted romance, the bedlam increases, until climaxed by the sale of the movie-within-a-movie for over a million dollars (stage money...
...play is one of Saroyan's simplest, even though the third act centers around a live man in a casket. Saroyan is going classic: he introduces clowns in the Elizabethan manner and their lines are downright Shakespearean, especially in their tortuous humor. He also uses the device, familiar to students of early drama, of punning in the choice of names for his characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew...
...such remarks to the valet's valet as "You 4-F" and by him as "Okay, toots, let's pitch," while all right in a modern show, spoil the comedy of the second and the delicate balance Miss Donnely has established between out-and-out slipstick and straight humor...