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...which seems bad manners even in frontier Texas. Follow some shooting, riding, burning, and some pallid attempts by the scriptwriters to make the whole affair into a kind of road-company Shane. When at last the end arrives, slow as an old mule across the desert, it brings the funniest movie scene in years: Taylor and Quinn shooting each other dead and dropping to the barroom floor simultaneously, like well-rehearsed ballet dancers. Ride, Vaquero! has some exciting stretches, but Anthony Quinn as the bandit provides the only glimpses of distinction; at moments he is so good that he seems...
When Bea Lillie shook Broadway with her one women show last fall, she proved beyond question that she was the funniest woman in the world. Victor Borge has also prepared a solitary program of music and comedy which demonstrates just as conclusively that he holds the male title...
...plot makes little difference to any Chevalier fan. In caricaturing a spring chicken still trying to scratch in mid-autumn he rises above farce to approach great comedy. His lessons to Jacques in picking up beautiful women are as delightful as they are instructive. And one of the funniest scenes shows Jacques stumbling through an imitation of the master's technique with Madeleine as the target...
...ordered ancient spruce trees hacked down at many street corners to improve vision and was fiercely attacked by ladies of the city's garden clubs. He explained: Ladies, when we trimmed the petticoats ott those old spruces, we saw some of the funniest limbs in all Denver. Modesty alone dictates that we chop them down. . . " The ladies were not amused...
Were students less personally involved, we suspect they would find much in the yearly parietal ruckus to amuse them. Some of the laughter, indeed, would be on themselves, but the funniest aspect would be the series of varied rags waved at them from time to time to rationalize social monasticism. Nevertheless, the subject evokes tier on tier of long faces, and when the rag is as tattered as the Administrative Board's latest, we can hardly find fault with the gloom...