Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play...
...develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother chatters and the Chaplain wanders about with a violin (his "better half") and casts forth wisdom to unlistening ears. Since all this is done with remarkable finesse the result is laughter...
There remains only Old Skipps, the rag and bones man who rises drunkly from the would-be dead to bring down the house with laughter and send the lovers home. And Barry Levin is a convincing drunk. And the play is convincingly optimistic...
Director Cary Clasz has put together a smooth production; the castumes are very fine indeed. And the whole vindicates Thomas' assertion that "Laughter is surely the surest touch of genius in creation...