Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aisles rocked with laughter and groaned with glee at the tasty (well performed) radio skit "Sopus Syrup"--remember Sopus Soothing Syrup the next time you buy. One of the "faculty" was so well received that the was called back again for a few scattered cuss words--correction, remarks...
...picture, but it suffers from too much Hollywood and unnecessary poesy-feeding. Like Steinbeck's novel, "The Moon Is Down," "This Land" doesn't mention locale, and its message lease fores and directness. The picture version of Stetabook's back in still the best of the type, but Charles Laughter, Manreen O'Hara, and George Sanders give you your money's worth in this...
London had got two new Noel Coward plays last week, with Coward starring in both of them. If the audiences hoped for something with the drama of Coward's cinema tribute to the Royal Navy, In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28), they were disappointed. Present Laughter is another of Coward's smooth, neatly frappéed cocktails, and This Happy Breed is a wholesome and slightly doughy shepherd...
...Present Laughter spins with the dalliances and divorces of a group of theater folk. They, like the play, are dominated by Garry Essendine (Coward), a charming, exhibitionistic, highly temperamental actor first glimpsed in a flame-colored dressing gown and lemon-yellow pajamas...
...little something about Lorea himself. It says how Lorea was a loyalist, fighting against France's rebels in Spain, and then how the rebels finally caught up with him and shot him. The release says that "this play by Lorca, a heart-warming tale of love loss and laughter in Granada (that's in Spain), at the turn of the century, has been demanded by Spanish audiences for some time." In fact, Lorca was at one time known as the Spanish Chokhov, which is plenty good...