Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serving as a curtain raiser to Androcles was Sean O'Casey's Pound on Demand-a piece of slapstick about two drunks skittering about a post office while trying to cash a money order. The skit, like the more potted of the two performers, fell flat on its face...
...slapstick henchmen and a village policeman...
Laugh, Clown, Laugh. "It is ... the particular function of comedy to destroy the more trifling dignities of this earth: quality varies with the shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...
...concessions have been made to the bobby sox brigade. Johnson gets too cute at times, much to the brigade's delight, and the slapstick isn't always up to Shavian standards. But you don't have to be a bobby-soxer to enjoy Johnson's plight on his first duck-hunting trip, and constant adult laughter at the many good gags drowned out the most ambitious concerted squeals the soxers could muster last night...
...weather moviegoers are crazy over horses, music, slapstick, fancy dress, Technicolor and Bette Davis playing twins. Variety's totting up of midsummer winners at the box office...