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...Funniest spot in the show: a jump version of Hamlet in which Betty plays a scraggy, wild-eyed Ophelia. At her noisiest in her songs, she has the force of a pneumatic drill and the range of a fire siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...funniest thing, though," he said "was a bunch of fellows in the Yard after graduation. They were so pied they could hardly walk. One of the soberer ones staggered up to me, pulled out his diploma case and said, "John, have a drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...there learned that the family name, now Bernstone, had been changed from Anderson. Hardly had the story reached the newsstands, when Miss Fremd received an excited call from Lisa. "Is that true about my name being Anderson?" she asked. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted. I think it is the funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked him: 'Why haven't you told me?' " Two days later she had an answer back. Her father told her that he had changed his name 70 years ago and never thought to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...freshman issue, an annotated street map of Cambridge, the center spread is a scrawled but reasonably accurate picture of Scollay Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names of the executive board on the masthead...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...

Author: By Edward C. Moley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

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