Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loves Us. Joseph P. McEvoy, author of Americana, The Potters, comic supplements, slashes bitterly at the huge industrial juggernaut that rolls flat the spirit of Hector Maclnerny Midge, average U. S. citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale...
Traditions--and the comic strips--make the mother-in-law the source of most quarrels. Thus the position of England in regard to Canada and the United States. The latter two countries have, without a doubt, given a shining example of good neighborliness to the world. Border relations have been remarkably free from petty bickerings; Canadians and the citizens of this country have been tactfully respectful of each others wishes. Therefore when a guest comes into one country--as Lord Darling, noted English justice, came into Canada and makes allusions not quite flattering to the other, he raises no antipathy...
...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...
...attract the populace. Then civilians flew an elimination heat for low-powered ships entered to win the Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead of the "mystery" racer of Harry F. Pitcairn, Philadelphia millionaire...
...small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario Mr. Cohan has writ ten a comedy of much comic effectiveness, if of no especial dramatic merit. Robert McWade plays the South Bend grouch skillfully...