No Time for Comedy (Warner Bros.) has the same title as a comedy by S. N. Behrman in which Katharine Cornell achieved a mild Broadway and cross-country success last year. While his characters lounged on soft settees gulping highballs for three acts, Behrman argued that playwrights whose talents run to comedy should stick to their typewriters in times of crisis, leave world-saving to professionals. So original was this notion that audiences gladly sat through two and a half hours of inaction.
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the...
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