Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love Happy (United Artists) is a Marx Brothers comedy with too little of Groucho's irreverent wit and too much of Chico's irrelevant Italianate chatter. It gets most of its laughs from a welcome abundance of Harpo's funniest clowning in years...
...Mountains is laced with a barky hillman's wit and mellowed with one man's humility before mountain grandeur. Mr. Justice Douglas emerges from his chambers as a man who can take the measure of his mountains and write of them with a Thoreau-like freshness...
There is no reason why Gilbert and Sullivan can't be put on the screen successfully. It has wit as well as slapstick, there are always love scenes and plenty of dancing, and everybody knows the music. But the D'Oyly Carte Company, which has set the standards for G & S stage productions since the beginning of time, has not managed to create the proper flavor in its film version of "The Mikado...
...help to rally Democratic Congressmen to his support. Nor had he come into office -like Hull, Byrnes or Marshall-with a public reputation outside the Department. He had no close friends in Congress and he has made none in his 14 months as Secretary. His learning, his wit and his lucidity are admired by the State Department press corps, but Congressmen do not warm to his cultivated manner, his balanced phrases, his seemingly studied elegance. The Congressmen could probably accept all of that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances...
...that "there are things which can be said in poetic drama that can't be said in poetic drama that can't be said in the ordinary speech of prose drama." That he is right, there can be no argument. But while the dialogue of "The Cocktail Party" has wit, intelligence, and a genteel flow and rhythm-all of which are certainly desirable in verse drama-one is not altogether sure that what Mr. Eliot has to say could not just as well have been said in prose. None of the poetry of "The Cocktail Party" really illuminates any untapped...