Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host to the undergraduates in his particular entry, mixing drinks with conversation. There are also a number of House "mixers" and dances throughout the yea, and one or two general outings. This year, for example, on the Friday night before the Princeton game house members retired to a suburban inn for an enjoyable evening of dancing. Special dinners are also often arranged, following which prominent guests, Joseph Alsop being the most recent, speak in the Junior Common Room...
...trenchant attack and a hot, mordant intonation." He got his first horn when he was 14, and he played in combos all over, even played at the Palace on a bill that included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. In 1952 Boyce was working in a Chicago nightclub called Liberty Inn, and developed the habit of dropping into a nearby church in the early morning after work to listen to the cool music of the organ. Then he began to stay for Mass. He became a Roman Catholic, and two years later he went to the Servites and told his story...
Fernandel throws snow-balls in a macabre sort of way, and is rather amusing in a French sort of way. The Red Inn is not to be confused with the Casablanca, which is downstairs...
...whimsical, low-pressure style. Autant-Lara sets the mood with a choking death on a dark night (using typically French nonlighting) and the mournful intoning of a balladeer. The horror of death, however, does not stifle Fernandel's humor so much as the flat creatures at the inn. The French comedian seems ill at ease in these dark yet hysterical surroundings...
...contrast between Fernandel and everything else in The Red Inn makes one uncertain whether it is a comedy or a morality play. The sobriety sometimes seems to call for a conscious moral judgment, but the frivolity of its characters does not merit one. In spite of this ambiguity, there is enough of Fernandel at his best to reward the patient viewer...