Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a lot of extraneous elements creeping into the day's curriculum. Along with statistics classes taught to martial airs, we now have the zesty wit of Bob Wing probing to the depth of the case at hand. So far only in Company one has such individual initiative been displayed. From a general sizing up of war time responsibilities to putting hens on production schedules, Bob is sure to know and express the answer with deftness...
Frederic March plays the title role with the fury, the languor, and the sly wit of the original Twain. If the story fails to hold one's interest all the way through, it is not because of the acting but rather because of the slowness of the last half hour's plot. Alexis Smith, stripped of all glamour and dressed in the old-fashioned clothes in which a flatchested, anemic young girl and a 19th century Hedy Lamarr would look identical, turns in a sentimental performance as Mrs. Twain, whose job it is to control her impetuous husband and give...
Broadway has been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already lie in their little graves. Least bad and most likely to survive: Take a Bow, a variety show that, whenever it comes up with a good turn, forgets that one good turn deserves another...
George Bernard Shaw, confronted by Author William Saroyan's request for an interview on behalf of the New York Times, put a $1,000 price on the privilege, then invited Saroyan to tea on a nonbusiness basis. After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms. Roared Vegetarian Shaw "Everybody seems to think I'm starving...
...that only the most insensitive cinemoths can survive it. On the notion that a terrible wheeze, properly delivered, can be even funnier than a good one, the revival of this stone-age (1919) stage farce might have turned out very well. But all the players handle its dim demi-wit as if it were Oscar Wilde epigrams...