Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace & Pigs! The surprise of the "Surprise Conference" proved to be that there was no Stimson-MacDonald-Tardieu-Bruning-Grandi conference last week, the whole thing turning into a somewhat comic false alarm. Premier Tardieu's sudden dash turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding which led the Frenchman to think that Britain and the U. S. were going to maneuver the Conference into excluding from discussion the Tardieu Plan (TIME. Feb. 15) of creating a world police force to be managed by the League of Nations. Upon actually reaching Geneva, M. Tardieu found Messrs. Stimson...
...sleep better after seeing such a play than before doing so should enjoy the production at the Copley Theatre this week. Although distinctly different from the usual run, "The Silent Answer" is no play for one whose nerves are not in the best of health. However, there is enough comic relief strewn here and there in the steps of Annie, the maid, to make a worthwhile evening for many...
Clowns. One hundred "Joeys" (from Joe Grimaldi, famed clown) operate explosive Fords, ride horses, asses and zebras, tumble, fight, imitate comic strip characters, allow themselves to be shot, kicked, mashed and butted, perform circusdom's oldest act?the Fire Alarm...
Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
...Mayor James Lee Key (TIME, March 28) because he had supported bond issues for Negro schools. In general its news policy is more conservative than others; it does not play up crime or scandal. First issues varied between six and eight pages including a page of incredibly crude comic strips...