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When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...best jokes are family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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