Word: bellylaughs
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...Audiences are yearning for some good, bellylaugh comedies and pleading for those great love stories of yesterday and the homespun yarns that sent them home happy . . . Let's get back to movie production...
...third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...
...like these two, their presence will have you in stitches. They pile in gags thick and fast and never let you stop laughing until their act goes off. In the same field as Olsen and Johnson is another bellylaugh - provoking trio, Willy, West, and McGinty, who do two explosive acts...
Some of the broad, bellylaugh stories Oscar Ameringer has to tell are doubtless the same stories he told the tenant farmers of Oklahoma when he went among them as a Socialist organizer. Angriest pages of his book are those in which he describes-and explains-the plight of those downtrodden U. S. citizens whom other upstanding U. S. citizens ("the rabble on top") turned into Okies. He moved up to Milwaukee, joined Victor Berger on the famed Leader and fought to keep that paper going (as it did) in spite of wartime persecution by Postmaster Burleson...
...backed Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock-the sceneryless, music-quickened strike play which a scared WPA had dumped overboard the season before- and The Cradle rocked like mad. Then, having enough of boom and roar. Welles and the Mercury turned back to Elizabethan times for a bellylaugh, rigged up Thomas Dekker's bawdy, roistering The Shoemakers' Holiday. That was a success...