Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Bairnsfather is England's famous humorous lecturer and cartoonist. He will deliver a lecturer in the main living room and also draw charcoal sketches of his comic strip characters. Russell has attained great fame in Ireland as a poet, painter, and economist. The subject of his speech is not yet known, but it is believed he will talk on the advantages of rural life, and returning "back to the farm", as he has been making speeches all over the country on this subject...
Feet First (Paramount). To see Harold Lloyd hanging by his toes and fingernails, in attitudes of comic agony and terror, to the abutments of an office building above a busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there...
After the address by President Lowell two motion picture numbers will be shown: a comic and a sports reel. The last event on the program is to be an exhibition of magic, as staged by the magician. A. H. Stafford '26. Refreshments will be served afterward and 1934 ash-trays given away...
...serial, Spanish Acres, it is in effect a long argument as to whether some sheep owned by a U. S. boy are to be grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children under twelve...
Although the spice of the performance, Actress Aubert's part in Princess Charming is somewhat vague, she being an adventuress through whose boudoir a great many comic figures flit back and forth...