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Word: clownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON opens itself to the gravest condemnation, however, when it becomes even less serious than the Lampoon in dealing with problems which will effect the destinies of our nation for the next four years. It is easy for a clown to be non-partisan. That the CRIMSON should give more prominence to the trivialities of a King-George-for-President Club than to a meeting at which a representative to the United States Congress, a Lieutenant-Governor of this state, and a president of the Massachusetts Republican Club were speakers, does not indicate too much discrimination on the part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Opinion | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

Bronson) is a cigaret girl who has always loved Al. She persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...LITTLE CLOWN LOST-Barry Benefield-Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Education, Respectability | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, famed onetime clown; by Doris Dean, cinemactress; charging "another wild party"; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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