Word: picaroon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith. Frankly a farce, Juan in China is a further disappointment to those who still hoped better things of Eric Linklater, a further confirmation to those who never expected anything better. But since by this week Juan has gone halfway home to England, hopeful readers still looked forward, thought what a really good time he and they might have if he ever gets there...
...course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...
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