Word: romp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vehicle jobs, for the Lunts, have a sort of advantage over solider plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...
...With both Fullback Vic Kulbitski and Coach Bernie Bierman back from Marine duty, Minnesota was in bloom again. A 34-to-0 romp over Missouri, with Kul-bitski running wild and scoring three touchdowns, hinted that the Big Ten race might be decided when Minnesota met Ohio State...
Though it is easily the season's craziest show, and probably the funniest, Murder, He Says lacks much of the ticklish wit and lightness of Arsenic & Old Lace; it lays most of its laughs on with a shovel. But by & large it is a rare old romp, played in specially fine style by Messrs. MacMurray, Hall and Whitney and by the incredibly ferocious Marjorie Main...
...bangs down the curtain on much the best part of the show. Though this jive and boogie-woogie romp may have Gilbert & Sullivan spinning in their graves, they can't be spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets grounded, along with the showboat. The plot trails off, without even leaving footprints, in all directions; the people go through a lot of boisterous but baffling antics; a dream fantasia nominally involving Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury gets wedged somewhere into the proceedings...
Kramer brooded on his past, said sadly that he missed his wife and children, with whom he used to romp in the garden of his Belsen home (he loved flowers, especially roses). Mused Kramer: "I love my wife and children. I love all children. I believe in God." He became a Nazi in 1933 because he had to choose between National Socialism and Communism. His conscience, he added, was not bad. "The death rate here is quite small, only about one thousand a month." Later Kramer was reported executed...