Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Andrei Vishinsky was all unaccustomed smiles, good humor and friendliness during the first three days of the Big Four meeting in Paris. The mood carried over into the working week's one big social interlude-a state dinner given by French President Vincent Auriol for 40 top delegates and their wives. A military quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt...
...censor will dislike, but what ordinary Russians will like. Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...
There is also less of Charpin, the great actor who plays Panisse. However, he figures prominently in the opening scenes of the movie which are concerned with his death. With Pagnol's perfect taste, understanding, and humor it is one of the most amusing scenes in the film...
Like most films of its breed (e.g., Colonel Blimp), Guinea Pig has an earnest and sometimes moving integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...
This newspaper is looking around for a man who has a childlike sense of humor and who feels indiscriminate affection for animals. Such a man is needed to do the paper's circus reviews. In his absence, however, the job must continue to be done, and if the present reviewer has no sense of humor at all, and if he like only a few selected domesticated dogs and horses, and finds uniquely unappealing the sight of an elephant carrying with its trunk another elephant's tail, he at least responds like all normal American children to such marvelous human beings...