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...many-tongued press, which is the world's mouthpiece, does not always talk with the mild forthrightness of the New York Times,. Sometimes it talks doubletalk, sometimes out of the side of its mouth, sometimes it mumbles through a gag of censorship or of its own stupidity. Some of the strangled sounds emitted here & there last week...
Craig Rice is also Michael Venning (under whose signature three of her 15 books have been written) and Daphne Saunders (who has signed one of the 15). Michael Venning's biography has been called for by Who's Who and (for a gag) she has posed for his picture wearing a crepe beard, and her husband's coat...
...only a pedant would rap Bobby Clark for his lively irreverence. As satire, The Would-Be Gentleman is by now both too hackneyed and too broad, and it never was much as a play. Careening through it, or pausing to leer, gag and gurgle his soup, Bobby gives it some high moments of low comedy. But most of the time he is held in chains by the script, or is in a sweat from wriggling out of them...
Otherwise the picture is the same as the play. The jokes are the same, but they have lost some of the effect that perfect timing gives to a good stage gag. The individuals are mostly up to par, with newcomer Conrad Janis filling the sergeant's shoes quite competently and with the late Bob Benchley suffering nobly as the harassed father. What is most lacking from the current version, however, is that peculiar quality of perpetual excitement and continual building-up of complicated entanglements that makes any farce a successful production...
Broadway's two aggressively serious plays about relations between Negroes and whites in the South had a gag apiece to perk up the holiday season...