Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasonably macabre farce, which can't help bringing Arsenic and Old Lace to mind, The Honeys has its fine wacky moments and amusing passages-whether bright remarks, clever pantomime, comic props, a funny murder scene, skillful acting or Ben Edwards' sets. If, for all that, there are a good many lulls, it is perhaps because the play is happier in its details than in its fundamental design. The Honeys is fairly safe playing murder for laughs because its victims are so loathsome. But Arsenic and Old Lace could play safer-and be much funnier-because its murderers were...
...such lines as "He probably ate his wife" or "The poison will perforate his stomach like a cancelled check." And it does, in its best moments, achieve the same delightful morbidness that now characterizes the Addams people, just as it once distinguished the characters in Arsenic and Old Lace...
...formal dinner you have no artificial flowers or lace. All your candles are white. You must have menservants, no waitresses . . . and no bread and butter plates are used (there are so many courses you don't have enough room for bread). No toothpicks, please. That is absolutely unforgivable...
...companies," groaned Massachusetts' Democratic Representative Thomas P. O'Neill last week. He was not alone. As the U.S. House of Representatives moved toward consideration of President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign trade bill, protests against it rolled in from the Twisted Jute Packing & Oakum Institute, the Amalgamated Lace Operatives of America, the Cherry Growers & Industries Foundation and hundreds of other interests seeking to hang on to tariff protection...
...author of Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, rather than showing his old mettle with the Irish tongue, offers mere bits of verbal Irish lace. Some fairly standard jokes about the Irish and the clergy take on almost the character of leitmotivs. Even most of the characters fail to come off-including Paul Lukas as the baron. There the play does not give the Devil his due: the one thing an emissary of his would most certainly not be is a crashing bore...