Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaak was elected president of U.N.'s General Assembly, where the world for the first time noticed the big Belgian's political skill, his moving oratory, his practical internationalism. He hulked over the nations' quarrelsome confusion with patience, fortitude and humor (rumor had it that he read mystery stories during the duller speeches...
...other women would feel awfully sorry for you"). In rebuttal Morgan told the court: "My wife is a member of the Communist Party, and I personally have seen her membership card ... I have come to the reluctant conclusion that she is entirely devoid of a sense of humor...
...Thing is by no means always spirited: the lines are witty enough, but the story is all too frequently becalmed. The production, however, is well managed throughout. Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) acts the playwright with sophistication and style; Arthur Margetson plays the trapped actor with humor. As the prima donna, Faye Emerson always scores with her looks, not always with her lines...
...Oyly Carte, now at the shubert, is performing "The Mikado" with all the polish and humor that the operetta needs. Martyn Green, who is one of the funniest men around in any company, climbs up the scenery and mugs furiously, but he hardly ever steps outside his role in the play, that of the Lord High Executioner. Darrell Fancourt, as the humane Mikado of the story, leers competently at his unfortunate subjects and utters the most grotesque chuckles that have been heard in Boston since he was last here nine years ago. The romantic leads are taken by Thomas Round...
...large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...