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...still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
Twentieth Century. Gloria Swanson and José Ferrer pacing a revival of Hecht & MacArthur's gaudy, high-spirited 1932 spoof of show business (TIME...
...collect lipstick. Between snarling and nuzzling, they help the Army put on a show in a G.I. auditorium whose elaborate stage could pass for that of Radio City Music Hall. It all falls into a tired pattern, but there are compensations: the stars' dependable footwork, a bright spoof of Air Force life, and plenty of fresh clowning by Comedian Danny Thomas...
...Charivaria--tidbits from current events, something like the New Yorker's Talk of the Town--are incomparably better in the original, but tongue-in-cheek items are probably the hardest of all writing to spoof. There is an excellent story about the birth of a game called "Museum Ball" which probably comes closer to the witty Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine...