Word: satiricism
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I Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve...
Laid in Manhattan in 1908, The Damask Cheek centers in Rhoda Meldrum, a plain-looking, vivacious English girl who is visiting her American relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its...
Neither were as good or as popular as his First; so next he turned to satiric ballet and opera. His Lady Macbeth of Mzensk is a kind of musical Sunday supplement about small-town life in Tsarist Russia.
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (Paramount) left Broadway in the form of a satiric comedy devoted to the triumph of an egomaniacal Southern belle over a house-partyful of intellectual Yankee drunkards. It emerges from the Hollywood wringer in the guise of a musicomedy burlesque of professional Southernism.
Bowden Broadwater's story, "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon," is an amusing account of domestic disaster in the genteel atmosphere of the best residence of a southern city. Mr. Broadwater's interest in decor is always a pleasure to come upon, and his use of this kind of detail...