Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful comedy, besides being semiautobiographical, was supposed to have echoed, faintly at least, the fuming sincerity of PM's Ralph Ingersoll and the virtually unduplicable wit of Dorothy Parker. Miss Gordon was well qualified to reverberate the Parker echoes. Miss Dunne, despite her own kinds of charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good shot...
...simply to supporting the thesis of The American Language, i.e., U.S. speech-ways have grown so powerful that they are rapidly reducing to a dialect "the ancient and lovely but now somewhat rheumy language of the British Isles." Readers of the Supplement will find it packed with boisterous Menckenian humor and casual erudition...
Premiered at the Shubert Theater Monday night, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...stock enough plot for a musical comedy, but there is nothing purely stock about the way it is told. The characters have a good deal of character, humor and likeableness (Sinatra mourns to Kelly: "Sometimes when I watch you, I got a feeling that there's something wrong with me"). Kelly dances beautifully and Sinatra sings the roof off. They seem genuinely concerned over their deception of the girl. They seem genuinely worried when they find their own affections setting them at odds - a difficulty nicely solved, for Sailor Sinatra, by warmhearted Waitress Pamela Britton. And their four days...
...obvious conclusion: with the demand for meat almost twice the visible supply-despite the slaughter of cattle not fully grown-the best that can be done is not going to be good enough, for some time to come. The film's approach to the problem, accordingly, is humorous as well as instructive. Best bits of humor: glaring samples of the sycophantic treatment accorded that "pampered citizen," the local meat-retailer; almost lascivious shots of steaks and chops in all their old-fashioned glory, which might well be forbidden on grounds of mental cruelty to carnivorous America...