Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Harold Lloyd, famed cinema comedian, and Mildred Davis, cinema actress, a daughter (eight pounds); in Los Angeles...
...rival attraction to Samborski's slugging at the ball game yesterday was in the press stand, where Billy B. Van, comedian in "The Dream Girl" at the Wilbur Theatre, was broadcasting the story of the contest to radio fans through Station WNAC, the Shepard Stores. His witty comments drew to the spot a large circle of spectators, who chortled with glee when the comedian seriously made through the microphone such remarks as "Hammond knocks a foul into the grandstand.... It hits a man in an empty seat", and "The umpire calls a balk, Williams demands a recount... The umpire wins...
Eddie Cantor, famed comedian: "My press agent announced that I have asked permission to organize a Broadway committee for the nomination of Governor Smith of New York for President. I was quoted as saying: 'Don't laugh about this. I'm serious. . . . The time for ridicule will be when he gets into the campaign. A few good lines about an opponent will be worth more than all the ponderous political arguments in the world...
...Balieff takes that step half a hundred times in the course of a single evening of the Chauve-Souris' program of jumbled beauty and absurdity. That is perhaps its greatest merit. Either sublimity or absurdity by itself soon tends to become tiresome. The endless foolery of a straw-hat comedian soon grows dreary. The lengthy sublimity of a five-hour opera by Wagner is almost as boring. But in the Chauve-Souris the clowns are artists, and the artists are not obove clowning. The result is an entertainment which is exhilirating, stimulating, never wearisome...
Fred Stone, famed comedian: "I wrote a letter to my cousin Melville E. Stone, general counsellor of the Associated Press. Said I: 'For several weeks the thought uppermost in my mind has been the fortunate circumstance that we had in the Vice Presidency at the time of the death of President Harding a man of Presidential caliber. . . . Since I last saw you the Dawes report has been made public. ... It seems to me that the plan which General Dawes has worked out will bring stability and peace to Europe and an era of sound prosperity to this country...