Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lists of Labor reporters begin with Louis Stark of the New York Times, and, until this year, most lists could easily end with him. He made Labor news his career when most papers buried such stories back among the want ads and comic strips, when his current crop of colleagues were school boys or cub reporters. Yet he is not old (49). He began work in New York with the City News Association in 1912, went to the Times in 1917. Since then he has made himself so well informed on Labor that both William Green and John Lewis have...
Next day, the American moralized: "Sometimes it pays to read the funnies-particularly the New York American Comic Weekly...
...Actor Levene, the leading role of Room Service is a brutal assault on most spectators' funny bones. There is the time, for instance, when he and his director (Philip Loeb) have gone 18 hours without food, the White Way having discontinued room service. Actor Loeb, a master of comic finality, declares that he is seeing spots. "No," he corrects himself, ''it's hamburgers...
...Star is Born," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum is a picture that, besides being filmed in color, is as nice a combination of the tragic and the comic as Hollywood has yet produced. Judging from the reaction of yesterday's audience. Producer Seiznick really has something this time, for the men chuckled heartily, the women wept gently, and everyone enjoyed the show...
...Kolliner '38 had the chief feminine low-life part, and Roger F. Duncan '39 that of the main male comic, Sergeant Kite