Word: madcapping
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...curtain rises on a South Dakota whistle stop with an acting troupe doing a madcap facsimile of 1906 theater fare called The Mountie Gets His Man or Chang Lu, King of the White Slavers. With valiant agility and a good dagger-throwing arm, Mary saves her tiny "bay-bee" from a mountain waterfall, a grizzly bear, and the Oriental devil mentioned in the title. End of fun. Hubby (George Wallace) strands the company and deserts his wife and two kids. An English playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below...
Just when a playgoer wishes he could do the same, Vivien Leigh divertingly peps up the proceedings. She shimmies a madcap Charleston that ought to be recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch...
Lost Capacity. Fitzgerald was bent and almost broken with disappointment. His wife Zelda was slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...
...which Metternich said that "the levels of man commenced with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes...