Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation of jokesters grew up to keep legend and complex alive. Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army's batman system are now considering adopting it, since it is inefficient that an officer should spend time carting himself hot water for washing. They are discovering that the antiquated, inadequate plumbing and general layout of British houses were designed for excess domestic manpower which...
...intimacy of the summer theatre and the holiday spirits of the audience combine to make passable fare of such plays as "Little Women" or old fashioned melodramas. If it's melodrama, you can always laugh at the play and hiss the villain when he comes in with the mortgage. "Little Women," despite its lack of a villain and the fact that it is no carefree riot, manages to supply an ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals...
...children in an atmosphere that is decidedly Oriental. Though the family doesn't eat with chopsticks, the living rooms are filled with curios and souvenirs of the East. All tend to support the view that some day, the slim, bespectacled instructor with the athletic build and the infections laugh will return to his beloved East. If he does, his mission will be one of sympathetic friendship and not of conquest...
...Laugh, Town, Laugh is a likable vaudeville, with Master of Ceremonies Ed Wynn providing the twists, and performers of all nations supplying the turns. Arrayed in his usual unusual costumes and equipped with a few new inventions, including a collection box that comments on the offerings, the Perfect Fool guides the show insanely from act to act. Wynn is not at his funniest in Laugh, Town, Laugh, but he is funny enough; and his embarrassed giggles help to redeem his most embarrassing gags...