Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lost Patrol," one may gather, is no movie for a high strung female. Death, so discussed, without the comic relief of idiotic foamings and writhings, is at best a trifle unpleasant. And one is bound to remark that whatever the director has neglected, in his enlightenment, on the one end, he has made up on the other. As if carelessly, the reader is introduced to, and comes to like each of the characters. It is a hard thing to keep eleven men separate in a story like this, where all are equipped alike, and where the stars are bound...
...salesman was Henry Peter Martin Jr., syndicate manager of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. He had been immersed in his usual work of selling comic strips and advice on baby-care one day last summer when Gardner Cowles Jr. (Harvard 1925), son of the paper's owner, called him in. Young Editor Cowles was looking through a copy of The First World War, a photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships...
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
...ideas were popping into the editors' heads by the dozen. They dropped a few clues by signing their letters with the name of a famed Soviet comic character, "O. Bender," and with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested...
...lace-frill motif in valentines is decidedly on its way out," one stationer said. "That type is apparently joining the old comic valentine which disappeared several years ago. The modern valentine is becoming clean-cut and the ones with a touch of humor are the most popular...