Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priscilla Foley skillfully portrays Elizabeth Stone's variety of emotions and dignity. Betty Black and Henry Mann decrease the smoothness of the performance by muffing lines; but Linda Gitter as Helen Halsey adds brashness, and Robert Dargie's Col. Keogh and Constance Walsh's Sally add color, humor and vitality...
...more than 35 times: "Standin' on my Con'stutional right, I 'cline to answer on grounds o' 'crimination." Woebegone, egg-bald Sam Zakman provided a sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them. He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they...
...wrong. Dorothy Johnson pays her respects to the strict conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the sentimentality and pawky humor by which all oldtimers of all frontiers recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor...
Mentally, these two were quite a match for one another--both keen, strong-willed and witty. Both managed to retain a superb sense of humor right to the very...
...primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...