Word: chasen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile'' from Rigoletto without being forcibly stopped...
...heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen's caps. They pour coal into Magnolia's flank. She lights up, chuffs smoke through her nostrils, trembles from flashing fire box to cowcatcher, and finally roars metallically into...
...attendant turns a crank and a small carousel begins to revolve. One of the riders seizes a cardboard milk bottle, breaks it over the ticket-taker's head. In surprise, the ticket-taker heaves a handful of coins on the stage. Some roustabouts who have been holding Dave Chasen above a glass tank of water, dive for the coins. Chasen falls into the tank and sounds the last note of the tune with an automobile horn...
...course of his monkeyshines, during which he pauses occasionally to juggle, dance, sing, play & tumble, versatile Mr. Cook introduces several hundred startling prop laughs. Always genial and ingratiating, he does everything from lighting Dave Chasen's mustache to making a hole-in-one with a small coal shovel...
...music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill monolog, tells about his farm in Texas, introduces a new act about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification, now for the first time in the cinema, as a valid individual outcropping of U. S. humor. The story is a wandering anecdote about a pretty girl who owns a tent and is loved...