Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undoubtedly Marvin Barrett's "The Party". . . it is skillfully, almost brilliantly written at times. And yet I find that my taste for clever young authors writing clever little stories has soured just a trifle. Perhaps the last few months have had a devastating effect on my sense of humor, but I don't think so. It is simply ennui, for this has happened so many times before. If we will not measure out our lives with coffee spoons, must we then do it with bad scotch...
Edith Sitwell (by her own proclamation) has no sense of humor. But all the Sitwells are prankish as hippogriffs. Osbert's impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature...
Aside from the intellectual angle the humor of the movie is gorgeous. Hepburn and Stewart have a scene which takes in swimming, champagning and a wee bit of love that ends with the audience laughing so hard that the last few lines are missed. Go see it fellows and take anybody...
...beaver and the London lolly pops of the curt of Charles II-with enough of the former to make the show worthwhile. Hudson's Boy, John Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney is a pushover for anybody. Several classic fisty scenes and some robust humor heavily handed out by Radisson's clum, Gooseberry, cover this necessary Valentine-exchanging well enough. You come out onto Washington Street with an almost insuppressible desire to pat everybody on the back and tell them what a beautiful world it is after all. You know that Muni has done it again...
...Skip" probably owed his popularity more than anything else to a sharp sense of humor. During the closing minutes of the 1940 Yale game rout when Harvard was out in front 28 to 0 and all the Varsity substitutes had been pouring in and out of the game, he is alleged to have called out to "Doc" Thorndike of the medical staff, "Get up, Doc, we're about to send in the bench...