Word: lightheartedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Come the Clowns (by Philip Barry; produced by Eddie Dowling) is not, as the title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been...
When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè...
For the doubtful pleasure of seeing these two second-raters in last week's "grudge fight" at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth...
But Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa...
Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy...