Word: patters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points in mass-produced wartime movies. The ingredients of this Kaye-ration are the West Coast conception of a soldier's delight: slapstick, music, sex, and patriotism. Luckily, the comedy is provided by the master of them all and Danny Kaye's git-gat-gittle and patter songs are as good now as when Sam Goldwyn first plucked him off Broadway...
...really remarkable thing about Night People is the skillful visual patter with which Johnson, working like a shrewd real-estate salesman, hurries the audience past the gaps and imperfections in his property and closes the sale before they quite know what they have bought. For no particular reason, doors open and shut in the moviegoer's face with bewildering frequency. Unnecessary characters rush in to firm up every soft spot with a bit of business...
...acting difficulties, Trial is the better of the two productions. When left to singing the whole company is quite superb, with clear diction, much gusto and a pretty sense of how to make funny lines seem just that. Morely shines in the Judge's role (and in his patter song) while Sara-Jane Smith plays the betrothed Angelina with giddy charm. Don Fern, one of the few Trial principals who does not also sing in Pinafore, makes up for an infinitesimal voice by rascally and slick acting as the defendant, Edwin. William Cowperthwaite as the Usher is the only other...
Blodnick, who entered the game in the second quarter, arched in six points on his accurate but peculiar push-throw shots, helping the Crimson stay close, 31 to 29, at the half. But during the third quarter, Fairley collected six, and Patter son hit for five to boost the Green advantage...
...necessary, and they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into "Now, dad, you'll see me scooting around the country on a motorcycle." Tom Jr.'s buddy ribs him with "Well, fly boy, want to sell your jet cheap...