Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...
...comic incident of the week was the inexplicable leaking out of an old, secret Scotland Yard "Report on the Activities of James Ramsay MacDonald from 1916 to 1921." In the expert opinion of detectives who prepared the report, "Mr. MacDonald is a Constitutional Socialist and by no means a Bolshevist...
...prolific subject for cartooning was the confused interparty "bolting" that began so soon as both Nominees were known. Nelson Harding drew a comic picture called "Any Man's Land," with voters running across, crawling across, tripping, tumbling, spinning in circles, bumping stomachs, going...
Died. Richard F. Outcault, 65, famed comic supplement artist (Buster Brown), who drew Hogan's Alley, the first full-page colored comic strip ever published (New York World, 1895); after a long illness; in Flushing...
...blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely to see this early in the season. Father (J. C.) and son (Elliott) Nugent wrote the play. Father...