Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small Cuba held up the whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
Fine books in fine formats have long been the fancy of Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., automobile man's son. At Hotchkiss and Roxbury Schools he edited a newspaper, a comic magazine, a literary magazine, annuals. Last year at Dartmouth he helped to found The Five Arts (TIME, May 19). Last week young Chrysler gave the Press careful first facts about his new Cheshire House, Inc.,*publishers of fine books in $10 bindings. Cheshire House will not operate for profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper...
...Roxbury School, Cheshire, Conn., Chrysler edited The Cheshire Cat, comic...
...hilarious moments of good slapstick, and the deft spontaneous playing of Jack Oakie, this is the kind of picture that disappoints its makers and audiences because neither can figure out why it isn't funnier. The trouble really is that it is a comedy built around a comic situation. That is a dramatic fallacy. Only the great geniuses of slapstick-and Oakie's talent is not for that-can make a funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes it ridiculous...
...Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...