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The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.
Among the entertainments they concocted to cheer up the long cold evenings was a play, Le Théâtre de Neptune.
In the years since, Stoppard has readily indulged himself with hack work ( The Russia House ), middlebrow entertainments ( Empire of the Sun ), and pre- Shakespeare in Love house calls as a script doctor ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ). Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steven Spielberg recently commissioned a Cats screenplay from Stoppard.
The film's director, James Whale, has long been venerated for this and other droll '30s entertainments, among them The Old Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933).
Frost calls this custom swinging birches , and the one who practises it, a swinger of birches . Though the custom was not universal, back in the days when youngsters still invented their own entertainments, enough of them swung the limber birches for it to be a common pastime.