Word: merriments
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...amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...Summer Theatre's selection of "Out of the Frying Pan" proved to be a fortunate choice. Francis Swann's comedy about a gang of screwball actors in one of the funniest things to hit Boston this summer, and some clever acting and smooth direction add immeasurably to the general merriment...
...Hope & Merriment. Throughout the land the belief was strong now that the war was not only being won but would end soon. In Texas, naturally, the biggest-sized rumors sprang up: that Washington believed the war would be over in six months; that auto dealers had been told to hold on to their dead business for a few more months, because the war would be over then; that the real reason Washington had stopped expanding war plants was that the U.S. did not need any more to whip the Axis...
...this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting to seduce both the Mayor's wife and daughter simultaneously as well as getting delightfully stewed. Such conduct...
After timekeeper Coles Phinizy stepped on his watch in a fit of merriment, there was some question about how long the scalping should continue. But peppery Paul Sheeline kept the game going till twilight, when the Crime ran wild with its hidden ball specials...