Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three young women rescue the evening on Joy Street. Catherine Whitfield, as the chatterboxy but clever Penny, cops the laurels. Her portrayal of an intelligent woman acting dumb is convincing where it could easily be fatiguing. The part of the other woman in her husband's life was assigned to pert and pretty Carol Wheeler, whose relaxed competence belies the alleged nervousness of amateur actresses. Helen Sanderson, as another other woman, trips several times in the first act, but recovers her poise before the damage becomes irreparable. The men are weak spots in the performance, except for John Rand...
...dancer Argentinita and her colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective as acrobatics in vaudeville. Humor, however, is the mainstay, with a relay of, Bert Wheeler, Willie Howard, and a dumb-but-not-deaf young man, Gene Sheldon, who all but steals the show...
...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...
Author White tells their remarkable tale with punch and tang. The Navy Department was interested enough to change one letter in the original title, making "expendible" "expendable." Possibly the Navy is also responsible for making Bulkeley describe certain military persons as "dumb dastards...
...overproduced chemists to such an extent that there were about a dozen Ph.D.s in organic chemistry on the Berlin police force. I recall with shame that a group at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society thought that was really funny and an indication of just how dumb the Germans were. You can wager that those chemists are no longer on the police force. Neither are they in the army...