Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago, in the old Savile Club in London, I heard the late Poet Laureate Dr. Bridges quote your limerick [TIME, March 27, April 24] in what seems a more perfect form -as a spoof on Berkeley, which of course...
...this, in the old days lusty, ingenious, scatterbrained. Wilder seeks to recapture in a period spoof that is just short of burlesque. He neatly touches his stock characters and classic antics with quaintness and whimsical fancy. At his best, he gives The Merchant of Yonkers the nostalgia as well as the noise of an oldfashioned German street band. Where most modern farces have a hard, alcoholic hilarity, The Merchant of Yonkers for two acts romps and lets fly with all the innocence of a pillow fight. One of the best casts of the season throws the pillows for all they...
...they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus set to music, On Your Toes a spoof at ballet, Babes in Arms about kids in a depression world, I'd Rather Be Right a rubdown of F. D. R., I Married An Angel a pure extravaganza that started in Heaven and ended in Radio City...
...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...