Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thank God for a President who is not afraid of talented and efficient underlings . . . who has a well-placed ego and does not, therefore, consider himself omnipotent or eternal. We thank God we are free of Presidents who reduced the vice presidency to the level of a national joke, for one of those jokes became President and look wha' hoppened. God, we are grateful...
Last week Ruth Draper, 69, began a "farewell Broadway engagement"-while remarking that "the farewell engagement is a standing joke in the business." All the same, it was a reminder that an irreplaceable theater figure would not be an eternal one. Ruth Draper has soundly insisted that she is no mere monologist or diseuse; she describes herself as a character actress. In any case, she is with every slightest word, gesture and accent the character she is portraying. And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter...
...know who called who what first. There has been an accumulation of small irritations, but I couldn't point to any one thing." What about the rumor that Godfrey was giving up smoking? Replied Stanton: "If he said that, it was probably as a joke. I can't believe Arthur would be that rude to a personal friend like Ben Few [Liggett & Myers president]. And there's nothing new about his smoking a pipe-he does it every now & then...
Folly To Be Wise (Launder-Gilliat; Fine Arts Films). Whatever will become of the British drawing-room comedy now that hardly anybody can afford a drawing room? Folly To Be Wise, though it sometimes laughs a little too hard at its own joke, makes an amusing suggestion: use the same cast of characters, but turn the plot into a quiz show...
...farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters. Mr. Pennypacker can never quite settle down to being funny. At times, the play has Horace hilariously on the spot; at other times, Horace has orthodox behavior, and even monogamy, by the tail. But there is too much joking for such a moderate-sized joke, and sometimes the merest commotion is substituted for comedy. Despite a good try at the end, Mr. Pennypackers predicament is never really unscrambled...