Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlie Chaplin's unerring instinct for social satire that first brought home to Hollywood the comic possibilities of the Nazi philosophy. "To Be Or Not To Be," with the late Carole Lombard, is much in the same vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...
Registrants included John L. Lewis, 62, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler, 60, and Gerald P. Nye, 49, Father Charles E. Coughlin, 50, and John Florence Sullivan, 47, better known as Radio Comic Fred Allen. Not even Franklin Roosevelt, 60, was exempt. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy his logical classification will be 1-C, which covers all men already in military service. But a draft board composed of four World War I veterans and a 76-year-old Negro will determine...
Restless, grasshoppity Comic Eddie Cantor underwent a minor operation in a Manhattan hospital, made his weekly broadcast from bed, but had to close his musicomedy Banjo Eyes, because his doctor insisted that he keep off his feet for a while...
Parents of the late mush-mouthed Comic Jo−who were bequeathed a third of his $100,000 estate-settled out of court a suit they had brought against his widow, charging that she was extravagant in buying a $9,579 marble crypt...
This simple story, however, would have turned out to be a cipher without the admirable handling which the Dramatic Club has given it. Judiciously mixing slapstick farce with the comic-ballet technique developed by the Moscow Art Theatre, director Ted Squier '43, has done a superb job. The caricatures of the officials are finely conceived and executed, while the final scene is a masterpiece of dramatic staging. The director had good actors to work with and the result is one of the most well rounded casts that H. D. has presented. Most of the actors are unrecognizable under their astounding...