Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened that on that same evening the Governors of four states were sojourning in the city of Wall Street and Broadway, and by preference chose to spend their time and money on Broadway. They were present at the opening. The comedian Julius Tannen, informed of their presence, dragged them up on the stage. Governor Martin of Florida, a broad-shouldered young husky, was first up, trying to look beneficent. Governor McMullen of Nebraska followed, very serious, worried. Governor Trapp of Oklahoma was grandiose in evening clothes. Governor Smith of New York was last up, grinning and apparently finding it great...
...vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema is a medium of high art only because it can be used, as can no other medium, to express the illimitable diversity of life...
...embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities. Scopes left for Dayton, leaving his friends to allege that he had refused syndicate offers aggregating $150,000, had refused to be pointed out, as most celebrities long to be, to a Ziegfeld Follies audience by Cowboy Comedian Will Rogers...
Billy B. Van is the salvation of "The Passing Show of 1924", now playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...
Burke is Low Comedian...