Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keep It Clean. It has become customary in revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group...
...Comedian Raymond Hitchcock opened last week in Chicago in a new play, Your Uncle Dudley. After a few days he had a heart attack, was hospitalized. The play was cancelled for the season. Said Comedian Hitchcock: "Just say that I'm fighting to get that breath back...
...daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting. The comedian says: "When he opened his mouth to speak, six moths flew out." When the lady in the aisle seat heard that, she clutched her handbag and said: "They have no right to say such things...
Eddie Cantor, 37, famed comedian, whose antics in Whoopee pay him $5,000 weekly, declared last week he would leave the stage after the present season, retire to his farm in Great Neck, L. I. "After my five daughters went to bed one night," said he, "my wife, my doctor and I held a conference. . . . We decided that Eddie should go in for being a country gentleman...
Died. Lottie Williams, 63, ot Manhattan, relict of the late great negro comedian Bert Williams; after long illness; in Manhattan...