Word: slapstickers
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...plot thread is woven into an imaginative cinematic pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
...this point, strangers to the novels of Marcel Aymé may very well decide that he is merely setting the stage for slapstick. But as readers of The Barkeep of Element and The Miraculous Barber have reason to know, Author Aymé is one of the most formidable ironists alive. He takes Lead Merchant Cerusier for a quicksilver ride among such big questions as: How much of life is essence and how much appearance? Is a man what he looks...
Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
Died. Hugh ("Woo Woo") Herbert, 66, veteran slapstick cinemactor (The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend), onetime honorary mayor of Studio City, Calif.; of a heart attack; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...fast, slapstick humor characteristic of director and book collaborator Abe Burrows is missing; the story, taken from Charles O'Neil's Christopher Prize novel, could be told unblushingly at a Sunday school outing...