Word: slapstickers
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Constance Cummings, a handsome, vigorous young woman, seems to enjoy the male impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with...
...about 35 years of age, males of the Royal Family are among the most appreciative voluntary patrons of London slapstick vaudeville, but now that George VI has assumed the throne, many loyal subjects find it slightly improper to think that such crude amusement can be either to the King's or the Queen's taste. Fortnight ago millions of provincial radio listeners to the first vaudeville Command Performance before Their Majesties agreed that the B. B. C.'s female commentator had struck exactly the right note in saying of Queen Elizabeth: "She is smiling sweetly, as though...
...power dollar. And after the Ross formula works itself to its 40-year conclusion, the Government apparently will be almost ready to give its power away. Cried the Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Bonneville may be a yardstick to Mr. Ross. To the plain citizen its economics are just slapstick...
...found Oklahoma hearty (Ralph Bellamy) through the intricacies of "truckin'," singing prairie ballads in duo with him, listening to his tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this...
...Ritz Brothers prepped for the college exploits of this film, their first starring vehicle, with a slapstick career in vaudeville and musical comedy that started a dozen years ago. All were born in Newark, Al first (1903), Jimmy next (1905), and Bossprankster Harry last (1908). Their concocted whimsy extends offstage. They attended the Hollywood premiere of Wee Willie Winkie in kilts, once cooled their feet in a Beverly Hills municipal fountain. Sojourning in Manhattan, they like to sit in Lindy's, eating bagels (doughnut-shaped hard bread) and watch Broadway...