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Word: wittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caesar and Cleopatra. Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains keep Shaw's wit from being buried under several million dollars worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile on the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Repertory in Manhattan | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Park Avenue (book by Nunnally John son & George S. Kaufman ; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz & Ira Gershwin ; produced by Max Gordon) kids the multiple marriages & divorces of the ultrasmart set to a fare-thee-ill. Nunnally Johnson and George Kaufman are not lacking in the wit that made them famous - the four-times-married wives and five-times-married husbands come in for a series of brittle wisecracks and a sprinkling of balmy ones. But there has seldom been more unswerving allegiance to a single joke and long before the end it has ceased to be entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly swapped by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Edward Finnegan, and elderly gentleman who naturally portrays the elderly Major Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

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