Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satisfied that they are meant for each other. Douglas, playing the role of a normal man, tries to sneak one over on his wife and break up the plan. He tries in the only way he knows how, and his attempts, coupled with a few side plots furnish the humor of the picture. Apparently he knows how to break up a platonic friendship, for the picture ends as his bride slips a symbol of plenty of offspring in the form of an idol, into his bedroom. The story ends there--shucks...
Besides being a finished jazz artist, Fats is a showman par excellence, and ranks with such topnotch colored entertainers as Bill Robinson, Eddie Anderson, and Louis Armstrong. Even Hughes Pannassie is forced to recognize Fat's insane sense of humor...
University officials have finally lost their sense of humor with this, the prankster's eighth visit; and authoritative quarters indicated last night that when he is ultimately apprehended he will be shipped home bag and baggage...
...rambles along, absolutely unfettered by considerations of structure, and the resulting lack of logic makes irritating, and even bewildering listening for many. Yet in many ways it is Strauss's greatest work. It shows a variety and a breadth of spirit unequalled in anything else he wrote. The humor in Till Eulenspiegel, for example, is obvious stuff compared to the brilliant whimsy of the Don and his squire Sancho. Not only do individual comic touches, like the army of sheep and the little bassoon sketch of two Benedictine monks, rank in subtlety above anything in Till, but the entire score...
...radical editor with the playwrights' universal sign of radicalism-a shock of hair; and a telephone voice answering to the name of Hot Garters. Leon Ames as the former midwestern star back for homecoming is cast to perfection. Even without a capable set of actors, however, the Thurber humor in the lines would still make "The Male Animal" highly entertaining...