Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealers' first impulse was to laugh. Nimble-brained, birdlike Isador Lubin, chief numbers man of the New Deal as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, declined to dignify the Thompson-Krock "discovery" with a reply. But by the time the columnists had each propounded a second column in defense of their discovery, their detractors gulped...
...supper is announced; a half hour of intimacy, a chance to laugh over the last issue of "The New Yorker" or Monday night's opening. But she knows nothing of cither. Oh well, she was at the Somerset last week. Why not talk about the music--but it's always Ruby Newman. Still, her hair is soft and hangs enticingly around her neck. Talk about telephone numbers about hers in particular. She is nervous about giving...
Marta Eggert, though very soprano-ish, makes an appealing heroine, and snuggles her four feeten into Leif Erickson's brawny arms with the proper warmth. Jack Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...
Telephones clang and people rush through the city-room, the way they always have in the movies, in this latest saga of the newspaper world. But the old-fashioned belly-laugh finds a fruitful haven in "His Girl Friday," with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell carrying off most of the honors. The story, what there is of it, is nothing new; girl reporter divorces the boss and decides to quit for a quiet home life with an insurance salesman. Boss dislikes the idea, and with the help of a real reporter's murder story gets girl back. Salesman goes back...
Chinese had many things besides this game to laugh about last week. And not unconnected with their mirth was the phrase National Reconstruction...