Word: slapstickers
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...chance for dancing and kicking, an essential in children's productions. Beverly Butte's choreography is a good blend of the clumsiness which delights children and the bland musical step. A modern minuet performed by Peter Parker and Earle Edgerton, the king's courtiers, is particularly successful in its slapstick...
Another bit of good slapstick comes from the two hulking mice, Bill Amory and John Tehan, who are pleasantly uncoordinated and squeeky. Hal Scott, the Prince's herald, also proves himself a skilled children's performer with his relaxed, yet lively and friendly...
...antics of the characters themselves, superbly paced by director Glen Goldberg, were a constant delight. Jo Linch as the nervous, be fuddled Mrs. Price demonstrated a fine talent for slapstick, especially in a very funny cigarette-lighting episode. Sheila Tobias, in tight black suit and trenchcoat, seemed perfectly cut out to play the sleek female assassin, and only Jordan Jelks, as the urbane Mr. Price, failed to enter the whacky spirit of the occasion. Mare Bragnoni, on the other hand, gave the best performance of all as the male assassin a lisping, bumbling misogynist who dispatches women for purely "humanitarian...
Charlie Ruggles starts the evening with a dead-pan destruction of crockery second in violence only to Field's motorized antics, but aside from this, slapstick is kept to a minimum. George Raft as a counterfeiter and Charles Laughton as a downtrodden clerk provide small gems so the whole, and only Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie fail to maintain the pace set by the older comics...
...linger here, and immediately move on to the subject of Senate investigations, and then to the foibles of the press, and from there to the proxy system of stock-voting. Meanwhile, they have thrown in such diverse gimmicks as a recorded narration, fairly-tale style, by Fred Allen; a slapstick routine of an executive doing his morning exercises; and a pantomime scene in which the heroinc, moving out of her office, spends about five minutes transferring such articles as girdles and galoshes from filing cabinets to a brief-case...