Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other pleasant people in Three to Make Ready, notably expertly exuberant Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...
...Really?" Better seen than heard, Danny Kaye is never at his best on radio. Listeners miss the virility of his clowning, the humor of his mugging. Not a good straight man, Danny flounders as he lugs the weight of dull dialogue. His weekly show (CBS, Fri., 10 p.m., E.S.T.) is principally known for its variations...
When the raiding started, organized baseball in the U.S. declared diplomatic warfare on the Liga. The U.S. officially recognized a small-time competitor, the Mexican National League, pointedly ignored the Pasquel circuit, which thus remained "outlaw." Smart Dictator Pasquel affects to be very amused by this. Says he: "Yankee humor...
...turns up on the screen. Director Richard Whorf has come within a couple of ticks of making something as good as The Clock (TIME, May 14). Racier and rowdier, Sailor has The Clock's tenderness and sentimental charm (plus moments of mere cuteness), considerably more pace and broad humor...
...time Slick has rejoined his boat, Author Vance has put the harried lovers over most of the worst jumps of mutual torment, misery and self-sacrifice. Once in a while dolor is relieved by snaps of humor and gay observations about human types, but all in all it is chiefly a must for those who love a good...