Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheer weight of pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same time touching. It's a long haul between laughs in the first attraction at the U.T. and for those who don't like...
...trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
Calendar Girl (Republic) is a rickety little' mutton-sleeved musical about a turn-of-the-century rooming house for artists. Typical characters: a fireman's daughter (Irish) whose father thinks ill of artists; a patrician two-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...
School Teacher-1947 (Sun. 7:30 p.m., Mon. 9 & 9:30 p.m., ABC). A three-part study of teaching: The Portrait, The Profession, The Prospects...
Reckless Laughter. The men responsible for these two new books on Joyce do not share Connolly's disappointment. In the introduction to his portable Joyce (containing selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as well as Joyce's short stories, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern...