Word: slapstickers
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...every poultice. CBS Radio boasts Guiding Light and Young Dr. Malone as well as City Hospital, "where life begins and ends . . . where around the clock, 24 hours a day, men and women are dedicated to the war against suffering and pain." There is even room for a touch of slapstick. On CBS's Professional Father, the psychologist, that stepchild of medicine, is considered a figure...
...dubious delights of family comedy. Bob is also a Hollywood photographer, which permits him to be surrounded by shoals of swooning models as well as a yearning secretary. The plot of the opening show, sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., was composed of equal parts of slapstick and nonsense, and not even as able a light comedian as Cummings could do much with...
...these virtues is, moreover, a greater virtue. They demonstrate what Disney's dominance in the field has made moviemakers as well as moviegoers forget: that the animated film is not necessarily a subdivision of slapstick. Though one or two U.P.A. cartoons have suggested the possibility, Halas and Batchelor prove with this picture that animation can cope with serious subjects as well as with slight ones. Next H. & B. production: a feature treatment of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...
...like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
...material, Harry Bauer, Louis Jouvet and a compliment of minor, but not lesser, actors create one of the funniest pictures before the modern era of slick underplaying. As Volpone, Bauer mugs and minces, as funny when he is playing dead as he is doing setting-up exercise of languid slapstick. His voice and his face alternate as the best things in the picture...