Word: sardonicism
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They were not being capricious. Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy. Its Elizabethan author managed to make it both a scalding comment on human avarice and a...
The Fabulous Dorseys (Charles R. Rogers; United Artists), a not so fabulously good movie, is another in the biographical series on U.S. musicmakers (Till the Clouds Roll By, Night & Day, The Jolson Story, etc.). As the Dorsey parents, Sara Allgood and Arthur Shields turn empty roles into sincere performances, and...
Hampered by the absence of new ideas, the success of current Westerns can only be judged on the basis of actor appeal, the magnitude of the technicolor spectacle, number of hoof-beats per square actor. "California" fails miserably on the first two counts and barely comes within minimum standards on...
Ear for Speech, Eye for Plot. Alice Adams was a Midwest neighborhood story. It presented a girl in a town like Indianapolis, a daydreaming flirt, in a struggle with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning...
Editor Harold Dean Cater's title is one way of saying that petulant, sardonic little (5 ft. 4 in.) Adams, for all his quirks and squints, had many friends. His red brick Richardsonian mansion on Washington's H Street, completed, after his wife's death in 1885...