Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a combination of a murder and gangsters for background and a fancy roster of big names in comedy for decoration, "It's in the Bag" trailing behind Fred Allen all the way, makes its audience laugh three hours but is still only a second-rate mystery-comedy...
...sets, too, are very simple, and depend almost entirely on lighting. Shakespeare did not rely on sets, nor of course on lighting, and simplicity, it is hoped, will make for a more fluid interpretation. But the big words of the English Department are out of place here: the laugh's the thing tomorrow night...
...civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even the professional self-assurance of M.C. Fadiman...
...Clock into a rich image of a great city. His love of mobility, of snooping and sailing and drifting and drooping his camera booms and dollies, makes The Clock, largely boom-shot, one of the most satisfactorily flexible movies since Friedrich Murnau's epoch-making The Last Laugh...
This week we lose to the U.S.S. Sperry one of the most eminently popular officers we've ever had, Lieutenant W. H. Beckham. Popular from his initial lecture, Lt. Beckham did a great job of teaching, disbursing, making us laugh, needling us on, and managing to give as inspirational talk or two. His "50-50," poetry recitals, and "captains of industry" are going to give him a place in every Junior's vocabulary for some time to come. "So long and smooth sailing to a mighty swell fellow," from your admiring underlings, the Junior Class...