Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
...Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...humor in Polonaise, is even cornier than the hurlyburly. Far & away the best thing in the show is Chopin's indestructibly melodious music. Even so, the nocturnes, waltzes and mazurkas are vulgarized into schmalzy songs. If the Poles knew what was being done to Chopin, they might well start another uprising...
...leaders of Columbia's other extra-curricular groups backed the protest. The Jester, undergraduate humor magazine, published a front page editorial, but the Emergency Council denied distribution of the issue until a mimeographed sheet had been stapled to its cover...
...Find more programs "to appeal to the child's sense of humor...