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Shaw having fun at society's expense. Pygmalion rags aristocratic pretensions by showing how easily aristocrats can be manufactured; it whacks away at middle-class morality, which would forbid all pleasure to the poor. But the satire in Pygmalion has worn less well than the comedy. Much the funniest scene in the play is Eliza's first appearance in society: with the purest, pear-shaped tones and impeccable enunciation, she recounts the horrendous yarn of how her gin-swilling aunt was "done...
...funniest Falstaff in living recollection, and the best." The solemn Times intoned: "Great...
...Perelman is one of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on three wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago he started pounding off the drivel on the 47-key machine, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, the Laffmovie, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and--this'll kill ya-Zeppo) are some of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on twelve wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago they started pounding off the drivel on the celluloid reels, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, mentioned above, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest and funniest comedies...