Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult distinction of being radio's most revolting personality has been won hands down in the past two months by an NBC character named The Great Malarkey. A loud-mouthed know-it-all with a noisome laugh, he breaks into two sustaining programs (Let's Fight, All Out For Victory) long enough to have his 200% American say about the war effort. His success as a listener-provoker has been provocatively virulent...
This question, addressed to Price Boss Leon Henderson at a press conference last week, brought forth a belly laugh in the best-natured Henderson manner. (The Price Boss has a great talent for Falstaffian waggery: he looks good on a Victory bicycle, sounds wonderful on Information, Please.) It also brought a frank admission: ". . . my lack of politeness. They say you should never get so busy you can't be polite. But Shakespeare, I believe it was, divided people into four groups.* I belong to the group with a low boiling point.. . . I've had plenty of flame...
...WAACS relaxed. When they first saw Hope they began to laugh. Some yelled. When it was time for Hope to go on the air, 800 girls awaited him in the new post theater. He walked on to the stage, stared, gasped "Oh, no!" and fled into the wings. The WAACS shrieked. Hope returned and simpered: "I've seen Second Louies so I just thought it would be a novelty to come here and see the Second Louises...
...spite of the triteness of the subject, the picture is not without its good points. The pranks of Alan Hale and Ronald Reagan are good for an occasional laugh, and the antics of a certain conductor who kicks them off a train are worth at least fifty-five cents...
...picture is, in fact, Hollywood's most strenuous effort, to date, to mix a box-office Mickey Finn out of these disparate ingredients: topical tragedy, pulmotored patriotism, slick-paper romance, and anything-for-a-laugh comedy. There are moments when Director McCarey has the sleight of hand it takes. Albert Bassermann makes a small prize package of a fierce, old Polish general. Pudgy Walter Slezak, as the dastardly baron, is as slickly untrustworthy as a bomb in aspic. But Principals Rogers and Grant exude a general impression that they know something has gone very wrong, and that nothing much...