Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD...
There are to be five separate clubs working together and giving joint presentations, the Banjo, Mandolin, Vocal, and 1935 Gold Coast, as well as specialty acts. These specialty acts will consist of various musical presentations of a novel nature, prestidigitations, comic skits, and solos. At present the schedule is somewhat unsettled, but there will be about six appearances, one at the 1935 smoker, at the Freshman Jubilee, and a grand concert at the Commodore Hotel at the end of the season in June. The other intermediate concerts are to be at various boys' and girls' boarding schools...
...duty and perform this vision for your people upon earth." Together they organized an elaborate ritual dance. All the people acted out Black Elk's vision in detail. After the dance everybody, even the horses, felt better. Black Elk lost his fear, taught his people more dances, one comic one with heyokas (clowns) to cheer the people up. Suddenly power came to him to cure the sick...
...March 17 and 18 Pi Eta fraternity will give its annual musical show at the club house. The production being staged this year is "It Won't Be Long Now" by Roland May-cock '33. The show is a musical comedy with special emphasis on the comic opera type. It is a story of college life and polo...
...business to sustain the whole show. Whenever the film begins to gather momentum, the director inserts an ill-advised comic interlude, wherein Frederick Kerr lends a English country-house atmosphere to a supposedly German baronial castle. It is nevertheless quite possible to overlook such discrepancies and to find the show entertaining...