Word: hyper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism, and God. The nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications...
...leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self-sacrificing lover, He is at his best as the hyper-sensitive ugly man. Ferrer's nuances of expression in his reaction to the slurs on his nose are especially precise. He moves with verve and fills in the speeches with grimaces and sounds of high comic value...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (MGM) may not be the "biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
...such a hyper-realistic effort, it is vital that the cast be shrewdly picked to avoid affectation, histrionics, and dramatic cliches; the international group, often even benefited by lack of previous experience, fulfils every qualification. "The Last Chance" differs from its many predecessors not because it is trying to say something but because it succeeds is getting a great deal beyond a feeble waving of the studio copy of the Americas flag...
...hyper-sophisticated followers of bedroom comedy, this homely little story of a Connecticut-conscious New York family will hold only a few widely scattered delights: there is not much of the subtle word-play and tittilating sex undercurrent that were good for so may laughs in the comparable "Man Who Came to Dinner...