Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate of Yale in 1929, Griswold had an undergraduate career guaranteed to earn the respect of the most extra-curricular minded Yale man. He was noted as the class wit; condemned Phi Beta Kappa for luring muscularly competent men form athletics and making "nifties" of them; was acting chairman and later managing editor of the Yale Record; wrote a column for the Yale Daily News; and was a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head, a secret society...
...Last Holiday" is a remarkable film. It has abundant wit and abundant warmth; it has a wealth of acute characterization, and, woven skillfully among all three, it has profound tragedy. In short, "The Last Holiday" has about everything that a film needs, not the least of which is an excellent cast, headed by the versatile Alee Guinness...
...most ways, the story has been intelligently remolded for the screen. Working from the Brian Hooker translation, Scripter Carl Foreman has tightened the play's continuity-a good idea in any Cyrano production-without muffling its lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...
...humor. Filmed five years ago by Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges under the title The Sin of Harold Diddle-bock, it contains a fuzzy exposition of Writer-Director Sturges' economic philosophy ("This is a picture against security. It shows that trouble sharpens the wit and security dulls it"). As currently released by RKO's Howard Hughes, who ended a brief partnership with Sturges in 1946, Mad Wednesday has suffered some cutting and at least one lamentable addition, e.g., a talking cab horse...
Died. George Bernard Shaw, 94, genius, playwright, wit, critic, Irishman, unsocial Socialist; of complications following a fall; in Ayot St. Lawrence, England...