Word: slapstickers
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...piece itself would be difficult to spoil. Kaufman and Hart's lampooning of Alexander Woolcott and a few of his friends is full of full-step jokes, slapstick, and broad humor. The cast that Directors Miller and Seaver have put around Woolley is adequate in all parts, really capable in only a few; but it played last night to the best of its abilities, muffed no lines, and kept the play going when The Man was offstage...
Doubtless all this might be funny (after all, there was Arsenic and Old Lace). But it isn't. And it is all the less funny because it tries so hard to be. It is crudely and noisily staged, gives up satire for slapstick, proves even more alcoholic than macabre. It owes its few real laughs to what Thomas Mitchell, as the undertaker, does with his facial muscles and his vocal cords...
This indigestible lump of melodrama is leavened now & again by a stretch of slapstick which is equally unreal. The only real moments, in fact, are provided by Gloria Grahame, who proves once again, as she did by her performance as the sullen taxi dancer in Crossfire, that she can be one of Hollywood's most convincing chippies...
Wars come and go, but the regulated idiocy of Army life remains one of the most popular sources of slapstick. The current offering at the Wilbur, a farce written by James B. Allardice and staged by Ezra "Henry Aldrich" Stone deals with the complicated plots and pratfalls of the men in the orderly room of an armored training company during...
...Live A Little" worthy of a laugh has been filched from another picture or another era. In a night-club scene, Cummings shamelessly repeats the Groucho Marx classic: "If we dance any closer, I'll be in back of you." He makes liberal use of several Buster Keaton slapstick techniques, such as the hurling of moist, gooey materials, and has exhumed the standard character of the jittery businessman...