Word: titters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
Even by overworking Grant's predicament to the last adolescent titter, Male War Bride's three scripters have been unable to stretch it to the picture's length. By evident default, fully half the film must first detail the couple's courtship, a fixed bout in the battle of the sexes...
...they are contemporaries of Oscar Wilde. The talk is about their hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established star, when she was a chamber-maid at the Palmer House. (A titter is heard around the stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition...
...Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find her cute. However, it is likely that millions of people will think her adorable and will titter delightedly over all the broken-field-running among the beds...
...brink of sacrilege. In Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...