Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Press Club last week, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba faced perhaps the most perilous moment of his U.S. tour: question time. As usual, the assembled correspondents tossed some curves to test the visitor's sense of humor. Do daily siestas contribute to Italy's over population? "The question is very pertinent," said Scelba, smiling slightly. "But the siesta is devoted to rest and not to work." The newsmen roared. Then came another: Did Actress Gina Lollobrigida express the official viewpoint in stating that married women have more sex appeal? "The Italian government," said Scelba dryly...
Mother Mary Joseph is retired but still lives at Maryknoll. Since 1947, Mother Mary Columba has run the order with great skill, humor, and an unflagging capacity for travel (every six years she must visit every single chapter house of the order, takes frequent trips between times). The Mother General plainly has the abilities of a top industrial executive-which she might easily have become...
...maan whut uses it." The man that uses it turns out to be a woman, Jeanne Grain, and all this, no kidding, is the beginning of a beautiful romance. More's the pity, too, because, except for this monumental piece of what might be called "in-house humor," Man Without a Star has a roll-muh-own greasiness and good warm-leather reek about it that is rare in Hollywood westerns. The rootin', tootin' (with Claire Trevor as the whirly-girly) and shootin' are unusually low-falutin. There is one long shot of a man being...
...audience sees them coming and begins to grin-but the script (by Robert Buckner) mereiy adjusts its monocle, stares, bows ever so sligntiy, and declines to pick them up. Guinness obviously does not care so much if the audience gets the joke; he wants it to see the humor of his situations...
Such high humor lurks behind Noel-Noel's serious delivery all through the film that jokes or situations are great fun when, if handled less adroitly, they might be merely embarrassing or in poor taste. The secret is in the author's imagination even more than in his camera. Since any brilliant humorist could do as well, it is important to see this picture before the usual humorists take over again...