Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax wit...
Kandinsky felt free to admit humor into his cartoonlike paintings. In Resurrection (see opposite page), a kneeling figure with acidic red, green and black tresses holds his hands over his ears while the trumpet of the Apocalypse sounds. There is a wit, a gay stylization, a fluid jumble of forms without regard to gravity that Marc Chagall continued in his secularized icons on canvas...
...Seasons. "Sir Thomas More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons...
Bolt's scenario preserves the prinking wit and rolling eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector. What comes out is a swift and vivid story. Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), having decided to put away a Queen "as barren as a brick," names Sir Thomas (Paul Scofield) as Lord
...Three Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique program) breezes as Sir Foplin Flutter, looking like the Cowardly Lion, bantering in a voice that plummets and soars like Cyril Ritchard's. And with all clowning, he fools us into listening to every line he says. Mrs. Pitzele...