Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...
...lyrics have lost a good deal of their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...
...indulge in the highly personal for the moment, I was particularly struck by two of the three poems contributed by Seymour Lawrence (the chief editorial hand behind "Wake")--the ones entitled "City Nun" and "A Love Song." I also might mention that I found a little piece of wit, charm, and whimsey by E.E. Cummings called "A Little Girl Named I" the most entertaining thing in the entire magazine. It is lonely in its modernistie company: but it is wonderful...
...Pinafore" may not be the most artistically successful of the great team's achievements, but it has lyrics that remain a pleasure to hear, even if for the hundredth time; it has very pointed gibes at the British Navy and British class structure that are still packed with wit and meaning. The plot may not amount to very much--but who cares, anyway...
...night, without notifying his bosses, Hawthorne suddenly turned his show into a carefree, wit-loose "Hellzapoppin on the air." Next day, before the station had time to fire him, the place was snowed under with fan mail. By last week, the scattyboo platter session was being broadcast over five Southern California stations ("the net-to-net coastwork of the Oh-So-Peachy-Keen Broadcasting Company"). Both ABC and Mutual were dickering for national network rights. Hawthorne's salary is now $450 a week...