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...repertory of grisly plays by Gorki, Chekhov and Strindberg. Thus Author Robinson has for his butts both the childish townspeople, who believe what they see on the stage, and the second-rate actors who lay open the dark places of the soul. In addition to these standard comic themes, he has tried to cash in on the superstition that anything said in Irish dialect is funny or fey, by making his scene the Irish town of Inish. But most of the cast have remarkably unfunny Irish accents, though their names are Irish. And Celt Robinson's lines have little...
...they in the picture. But there is neither ebb nor flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial decor neglected, no outlet for photographic ingenuity closed...
...Dragon's Teeth" by the English playwright Shirland Guin; the scene is set in Europe immediately after the war and the six male characters are all officers. One is a young lientenant, another is an older man, the heroine's father, and a third is a comic character...
Life in the Law School is a three-years monotony. The wretched slavey in Langdell Hall, with his green eye-shade, green book bag, and unhealthy green face has much need of comic relief. This he frequently gets from the mock arguments of the law club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following...
...printed as blank verse is no reason for thinking that it actually is blank verse. Sometimes this casual prosiness is unintentionally comic, as when he makes a minor character think of Karen...