Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funny is Mr. Cantor as a cinema comedian...
...Arrow Collar boy with an Arrow Collar boy's personality. He sings fairly-well, however, and makes an honest stab at being Kathie's equal. She, the waitress, is a cute baby-face with a pleasant voice and more acting poise than her royal lover. The master-comedian, Dewolf Hopper, gives a professional air to the show and makes even the slightest wise-crack seem funny by the aid of a contorted face and voice. The rest of the cast is enthusiastic and homely enough to make the play as wholesome and hearty as a German Christians dinner. To show...
...Parisian telephone operator who proves in Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness...
...office. It is gradually divulged that Henry, to adorn his sisters with a marital background, had bartered skim milk instead of cream. For no good reason he is released and the entire cast pairs off and marries, which is theatre for a happy ending. Al Roberts as a comedian gets no laughs...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIAN s-Ellen Glasgow - Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Satirizes an anachronism of trans-Potomac chivalry...