Word: waggishness
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Gielgud's direction of "Love for Love" keeps the thing moving fast, and never lets the general spirit of good-humor escape. The settings, especially that of a neo-classic drawing room (with adjoining bedrooms) are as authentic as they are waggish. The play is going to be in town only a few more days. If there is plenty of time it might be a good idea to read it before going, but inability to do that should keep no one away...
...Toscanini took a garrulous lady friend to see The Telephone, which concerns a woman who spends so much time gabbling on the phone that she wouldn't listen to a proposal. Toscanini, in a waggish mood, got Menotti to substitute the friend's phone number for the phony number usually used in the opera...
According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
Born. To Russel McKinley Grouse, 53, waggish perennial partner of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and Anna Erskine Crouse, 30, daughter of Novelist John Erskine: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Timothy. Weight...
...movies' master pianist, Jose Iturbi, contributes several fine plane solos and some good comedy, while Kathryn Grayson proves an attractive heroine. When the music stops, the film is devoted to skillful comedy that is both waggish and whimsical. It's the type of comedy that even Fred Allen fans would...