Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Performances of Bernie West and Sully Michaels as the two gangsters point up what remains the long suit of summer stock: the dependence on capable comedians. These two professionals deliver their lines -- to a Madison Avenue phrase -- straight to the laugh-control center. Their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" seems not the least bit hackneyed, in spite of the familiarity of the song. Kiss Me Kate at South Shore offers summer theatre at its finest, inviting just a little more suspension of belief than usual to make a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Broad comedy combines well with the frothy, good humored quality...
...Laugh, O'Hara...
...baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...
...that Mary Cassatt once said, "He could have taught stones to draw correctly." Though he did not convert the young Paul Cezanne to impressionism, he was responsible for the perception with which Cezanne observed nature, and for his devotion to inner construction. When a pompous friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro who aided Gauguin after he gave up the Bourse for a fulltime career in art, and it was Pissarro who taught the young Van Gogh to open his canvases...
...Laugh, O'Hara...