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Right now the Laffmovie is showing among other delicacies, a cartoon about a sneezing weasel and a Buster Keaton classic, vintage 1934. The former does, however, contain some modern verse. There are two lines...
...popcorn, which is served up by the same people who cater to the Yankee Stadium, pervades the place and sets the tone of slightly frayed levity. Most of the stuff is eaten by children, who make up the fifty percent of the clientele to whom Buster Keaton is something new. The Laffmovie probably attracts a higher percentage of children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons...
...first, Waugh found, the comics were steeped in an atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
...Buster Keaton, heavy-lidded Great Stone Face of silent films, flew into Paris for a brief new career. The once-famed comedy star, pushing 51, faced a spell of circus clowning (at a reported $200 a day). His new task, to last a month: 14 minutes of sham dueling, twice a day, with the Cirque Medrano's bandleader. His other plans for the future? "None...
...though eight months pregnant, turned out to give the plasma transfusion. By that time, Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...