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...Author Sidney Perelman, sometime cartoonist, funnyman and scenarist for the Marx Brothers, is famed for his comic writing in which clichés, puns, misunderstandings, paraphrases of oldtime cinema captions, tall talk and dull talk are jumbled together. But All Good Americans, a naturalistic play on hardboiled lovers, is not improved by being peppered with Perelman jokes, new, old, sometimes funny. The lines and action are sophisticated, superficial, curiously unreal...
...lively political philippics helped to smash Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare last month. In Philadelphia where there is no Hearst and where the stodgy Bulletin has been a model for the city's other journals, the Record got attention by rowdy headlines, pictures of chorus girls, comic strips, proletarian social-advice columns, interlarded with intelligent liberalism...
...Editor Barden intended impolitely to bracket rich, potent Individualist Robert Rutherford McCormick with his newspaper's most famed comic strip character, "Andy Gump...
Produced last winter as a play, Christopher Bean emerges in the cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...
...humor which characterizes most of the comic dialogue in the play is, like the title, forced and manifestly uninspired. But not all the lines fall short. The Plymouth audience did not hesitate to show appreciation when Hope Williams, on dismissing her over-formalized Rising Young Business Man suitor (Coburn Goodwin), asked him as a last favor to "goose Mrs. Cruikshank...