Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Kelly's famous portrait of a braggart is still an amusing one. If The Show-Off seems protracted now, it seemed already diluted in 1924, for in an earlier and more brilliant form it was a vaudeville sketch. But its best bits are among the funniest of all tilting at windbags. The strutting $32.50-a-week clerk, who is neither cowed by the law he flouts nor squelched by the mother-in-law he infuriates, is most alive when most farcical. Lee Tracy plays him with noisy but un-brutal gusto, making him far more ham than horror...
...book also features a statistical sketch of the undergraduate and an account of Radcliffe's views on the typical Harvard...
...Artist's Eye. Nevertheless, the romance of a picture magazine became a 26,000-copy sensation on the day Founder Herbert Ingram, grandfather of the present editor, brought out the first issue in May 1842. It carried spot-news sketches of Queen Victoria's fancy-dress ball at Buckingham Palace, and of an "immense conflagration" at Hamburg. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, the Hamburg sketch appeared on Page One only a few days after news of the fire reached London...
...many a first-nighter, puzzling over the biographical sketch in his Playbill, Jean Arthur may have seemed as ageless and mysterious as Peter Pan himself. The eight-line sketch offered little more than the fact that she was a famous screen star whose favorite film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...
...final sketch, with Young taking his first ride in a commercial airliner, gave) him a chance to show off in his most colorful schnook form. Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could...