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...timer (rich, from Boston) who retouches a portrait of her into fancy leg-art; a poet who sings like, and is played by, Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about it that is almost-but not quite-disarming enough. Jane Frazee, despite her waxworks role and surroundings, is human, likable and nice to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Luxury Lovers. Last week's action did peel off (as of July 1) the top layer of taxes on luxury goods, amusements, communications and railway berths -taxes which have cost U.S. citizens an annual $1.2 billion since they were slapped on by the 1943 wartime Revenue Act. Chiefly this was a New Year's present to luxury-loving Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hostilities' End | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Laugh, Clown, Laugh. "It is ... the particular function of comedy to destroy the more trifling dignities of this earth: quality varies with the shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horses, Dancers & Dolls | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Which Englishmen could recognize as a corruption of John Peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twice As Much and Better, Too | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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