Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Frank Tinney, famed comedian, by an interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...
Florida Girl. Earl Carroll, who usually contents himself with Vanities, turned with this piece to musical comedy. He made Lester Allen a leading comedian in the process and amused the initial gathering moderately...
...city manners. Unfortunately he finds her sharp and unattractive. The blond hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
...five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...
Although Mr. Hopper does not regret his career as a comedian, he admits that most humorous actors have a longing to appear in tragic roles. Mr. Hopper told the reporter that he had started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little...