Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Class Night has been moved over from its customary Monday night spot this year in order to give Annex seniors a chance to attend both Senior Spread and their own affair...
Bear Hits the Spot...
Strangely enough, the comedy sequences are funny in the same way that the Old Howard comics are funny. Observers laugh first because they can spot the gags upwards of a mile ahead of time, and second when they find they were right. This situation arises because Paramount has followed alarmingly closely (for Hollwood) the original Twain work. To be sure, they schmalzed up the beginning and end and threw in a little sledgehammer moralizing in the middle, but they kept their grubby paws off much of the Twain dialogue and all of the comedy situations...
...feature is that they do seem to have affection for their mother. This hardly outweighs the rudeness with which they treat her suitor on-stage and the crimes they have committed off-stage. Even as criminals, they are not very interesting, and the "tough-guy with the one soft spot" angle has never amsued me. I think it may be that I have more concern for their mother than they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause of their disrespect...
...quiet, if not secret, gatherings got up by dimly defined females, identified, like queens and red light denizens, by only first names. Officially, this man's profession is teaching young Americans." Apparently if you can't accuse a man of anything definite, he is considered guilty on the spot...