Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dizziest part of the evening comes during the half hour before the regular performance starts, when Comic Frank Libuse runs wild as "head usher," people climb a ladder to reach their box, a horde of customers have to go through a Coney Island Crazy House (treadmills, wobbly stairs, wind machines) to get to their seats...
Aroused at what semed like imminent death for "The Mole," a hairy comic striper currently tunnelling his way through the Dick Tracy series, the Adams Hose "Mole First Committee" dispatched the following telegram yesterday to Chester Gould, creator of the strip...
Though all this looked like comic opera, President de la Guardia saw beneath the grease paint. Said...
...audience which is the last glittering show in western civilization. In the Diamond Horseshoe, niftiest railbirds were Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Leonora Warner (see cut). No one paid much attention to the opera, which was one of the lasting achievements of western civilization-the tender, comic Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus...
Sucker has no plot and needs none. It is just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda...