Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he should turn out to be "nothin' but a Gay Lombardo"-to which Master of Ceremonies Joe Kelly, to make sure everyone got it, rejoined: "You mean a gay Lothario, don't you?" And so on and so on, no chestnuts barred in a script whose humor formula runs like this: "I just bought a farm." "Where is it?" "Hawaii." "I'm fine, how are you? But where's this farm?" "Hawaii." "I'm fine, but where's this farm...
Saturday's Children (Warner). In the bouncing days of bedroom farce, Maxwell Anderson's comedy, Saturday's Children, pried the lid off social consciousness with an entering wedge of humor. Thirteen years later, having found that social consciousness pays, Hollywood was sure to set Saturday's Children working for its living in the movies...
...utters, I can see Hitler rubbing his bloodstained hands. The result of all this is that I lie awake. He has murdered my sleep-so I open the doors of Peking with Lin Yutang's key. There are 800-odd pages and each one enthrals you with beauty, humor and interest...
...sense of humor, and the unqualified approval of two men who have none-Joseph Newton Pew Jr., vice president of Sun Oil Co., who has conducted a bitter, open-purse, one-family crusade against the New Deal for seven years, and thee-saying Quaker Joseph Ridgway Grundy, 77, proud since the turn of the century of his title as King of Lobbyists...
...Claudine," far from being "tender, revealing and gay" is the fitful stepchild of a distorted imagination. The bracing earthiness of French humor is gone, the edge of satire dulled, the atmosphere laden down with cloyingly pastoral photography...