Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether your tastes in comedy run to subtle wit or to custard-pie slapstick, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" is your meat. And since it's scheduled to run for a full week at the U.T., you'll have plenty of time to satisfy your appetite...
Slapstick and farce have here taken a back seat to subtle wit and biting satire. Critics who are fond of maintaining that the movie-going public will refuse to take in the sort of comedy that appeals to Broadway audiences are going to find the horse-laugh on themselves here, for the Kaufmann-Hart funnybone-tickler has been lifted almost bodily from the stage and set down in celluloid; and it's just as funny...
What keeps Dartmouth going is one line, three Sophomores, Harrison, Rondeau, and Riley, to wit. Against Yale last weekend Rondeau scored five of the Indians' six goals, and Thursday this trio scored 10 of Dartmouth's 16 goals. If the Varsity can bottle these three by defensive tactic and strike when other Indian waves are on the ice, the impossible might be achieved...
...form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range of the theatre, snap judgment, and a scholarly background--these are the requisites for the drama critic. No wonder that the critic retreats into individualistic displays of bon mots and wit in his reviews...
Tall, deep-voiced and deliberate, John R. Mott, still hale at 76, has practiced self-discipline since youth. He got an en cyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. Not famed for wit or humor, he knows how to find and use facts, whip men up to enthusiasm...