Word: spoof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rather Be Right. The Kaufman-Hart, Rodgers-Hart, George M. Cohan musical spoof about F. D. R., the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and the U. S. A. (TIME...
...Loves Me Not is a satire on both Princeton and Hollywood. Author Edward Hope (Coffey) (Princeton 1920) needs no research or official permission to spoof his own college. Even Adapter-Director Lindsay, who spent one year at Harvard, knew well that Princeton dormitory rooms have no Chippendale furniture, no grand pianos, that no Princeton dean has ever been knocked out by an undergraduate, trussed up and photographed by newsreel men. But so deft and good-tempered are their extravagances that no injury is done...
...Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy on the national conscience, a kind...
...promise of the New York Theater League to eliminate theater ticket speculation by its new ticket plan will be most welcome to the credulous. But those who remember the "war to end war", to say nothing of Prohibition, will probably be a little inclined to spoof at the coming of the millennium to Broadway, even in the footsteps of "The King of Kings...
WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN : The Last of the Kaisers-Emil Ludwig -Putnam ($5). "The colossal egoist, the spoof Napoleon...