Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Motorists have not laughed at the joke since Model-T days but many a policeman still considers it tops in searing wit to snarl: "Where do you think you're going, to a fire...
...former partner in the PrestOLite business. One day, according to the story Carl told me, he made a wager with Mr. Allison on the gastronomic potentialities of their respective cooks. ... On the starting line Carl's cook said to Allison's cook, "What do we start wit, Nigger, hams?" Said Allison's cook to Fisher's cook, his eyes bulging a bit, "Look here, Galloway, did you say ham or hams?" "I said hams," said Galloway. "Nigger, you win," said Allison's cook...
...Worth A Million" is a play of immense, variety. Starting out as wit comedy, it suddenly become self-conscious, realizes it is falling flat, and ends up as out-and-out burlesque. If "Worth A Million" had tried to compete with the Old Howard, from the start, it could have made better use of its east. Glamor-the old and the new -is represented to perfection in Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play...
...visit his old friend, the vicar of Mea Culpa at Waltham Whirling on the Thames. He discovers the vicar's niece Parmenis, who is as rude as she is beautiful. He reminisces about undergraduate roistering at Oxford; the result is a fair example of the unresting Gogarty wit and the chief Gogarty interest: "I could not help recalling the scene, near midnight one long-vanished summer, between the bridges of the canal behind the college, the silhouetted bowler hats of the proctors converging from each side; and the amazement of a local Ariadne deserted on the bank...
...Margin For Error" rips along and then settles down for a second act of harangue and occasional laughter while the consul's death finds a solution. Spotted here and there with good humor, the play is still far and away beneath. "The Women." The wit is always about politics, and somehow one feels that all jokes about Europe have been told already. Although carried almost to the ridiculous, the plot on the whole is well-handled, and allows for some spontaneous acting by a cast that does everything required of it. Sheldon Leouard as Officer Finkelstein is the only part...