Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Private Life. Small in size (5 ft. 7 in. tall, 135 Ibs.), he likes seashore fishing, horseback rides before sunup. A poker face reflects a disciplined temperament, covers up witty humor, a disarming approachability. Generally gives or goes to a dinner party every night. Married, no children...
Horseplay with the corpse, and similar macabracadabra, has been a viable variety of humor in the human village since at least the Middle Ages, and few will seriously bother to accuse Hitchcock of bad taste. What he does sometimes invite in this picture is the charge of slack method. The comic pace often gets so slow that the moviegoer realizes he is, after all, at a funeral. The actors, too, sometimes behave pretty much like pallbearers, but the central idea is of such wormy charm that it takes more than an hour and a half to spoil...
...biography of one of the funniest men the U.S. ever produced. No chip off the old block, son Nathaniel rather unsuccessfully relies on love and anecdotes to do what few writers have ever been able to achieve: a funny book on the anatomy of another man's humor...
Annex girls, as a rule, rarely go to another college for a weekend. For the most part, they are content to stay at Harvard and cheer for the College football team, unless they are in a particularly foul humor or madly in love with some Yale student. Anyway, as one girl said, the average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...