Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foolish Notion (by Philip Barry; produced by the Theater Guild). A worldling and a wit, Philip Barry is really at home only in a drawing room. But, as a dabbler in philosophic fantasy, he is also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...
Life was all any young unmarried woman could ask for. Occasionally she visited her sisters and delighted her nieces with her brisk wit. They always looked forward to being with "Aunt Milly." Wellesley students called her "Milly Mac," but not to her face...
Certain Niceties. Unruffled Miss Mac adapted herself to Navy ways and used her wit to tactical advantage. At a Navy Day dinner in Manhattan the star of the speakers was Captain Mildred McAfee. With some misgivings, she salted her speech with a story of a British poster which WACs in England had hung in their barracks. The poster, she explained, was designed to make Britons appreciate the sacrifices of their soldiers. It showed a figure in bed under warm blankets while a British Tommy looked on from a muddy foxhole. The caption was: "This man would like...
Selective Service officials were at their wit's end last week. The problem that vexed them: how to deal with a group of draft-age Americans who have refused to fight, who now decline to work, and spend most of their waking hours finding new and more ostentatious ways of thumbing their noses at all authority...
...fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening act her precocity becomes a little too precocious, but John Wilson's able directing never lets more...