Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic, and then irritably pushes Miss Lake into a fountain...
...young London bank clerk (this story is in the nature of comic relief), just fired for incompetence, celebrates with an orgy of shopping, orders everything sent to a vacant house, the bill to his peppery uncle; by some miracle escapes arrest...
...master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
Going Wild (Warner). One of the most frightening experiences undergone by people who are learning to fly is "ground-fear"-the conviction that if they try to land the plane they will crack it up. In the case of Comic Joe E. Brown the conviction is not purely neurotic, for he has never flown before. He is a reporter who has been mistaken for a famed ace. Going Wild is a mildly amusing, derivative comedy whose laughs do not compensate for long stretches of dullness. Laura Lee is the girl. Best shot: the plane crashing while Brown and his sweetheart...