Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fatty" (Roscoe Conkling) Arbuckle, onetime cinema comedian, signed two contracts last week- to appear in vaudeville on the Pantages Circuit;* and to act in a series of films made in Germany. He expects to earn $2,500,000 in five years. Since the orgiastic, accidental death of one Virginia Rappe in 1921 no U. S. producer has dared risk the national opprobrium against "Fatty" Arbuckle. Last week he looked both doleful and healthy...
...TIME of Jan. 31, under PEOPLE you report the fact that Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder, famous Scotch comedian, wrote from West Virginia to England in favor of Sunday observance...
...just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies catch cold,-to save that!" and he pointed disdainfully, "Why that was once just a little fiddle which...
...striking, but a bit overdone. As the prince starts to take the heroine in his arms for a final embrace, General Slodak dramatically thrusts the Latavian flag between them; the queen stands sternly pointing to it, the heroine collapses and is partially supported by the comedian, the prince stands, hands clenched in awful agony. Thus the tableau remains motionless through three or four curtains. It was like the living statues one used to see at the circus. One always wonders what would happen if one of the statues had to sneeze or actually did get the proverbial hiccoughs...
...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...