Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blond, begoggled James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Finance Minister, brought in his so-called "baby budget." which the House of Commons promptly passed. No baby, the budget slapped an immediate embargo on some $50,000,000 worth of annual imports from the U. S. Samples: automobiles, oysters, tobacco, comic strips, fiction magazines, silk fabrics. Other imports, such as trucks and petroleum products, it admits in limited quantities by special permit until Canada feels she can do without them...
Featuring the Thespian artistry of Roger B. Merriman '96, professor of History, in a leading comic role, Eliot House will present Thomas Middleton's Elizabethan comedy "A Trick to Catch the Old One," on Wednesday night, December 18, at 8 o'clock in the House Dining Room...
...their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye, now somewhat more mature than Miss Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable the slimmer wriggle. The rest of the activity centres around two Irish song publishers, Calhoun and Harrigan (fat Jack Oakie and thin John Payne), who contribute respectively comic and romantic relief. When Author Pamela Harris' plot pushes them into the A. E. F., the time arrives for America, I Love You, Goodbye Broadway, Hello France...
Horse Fever (by Eugene Conrad, Zac & Ruby Gabel; produced by Alex Yokel). A poor attempt by Producer Yokel to repeat the success of Three Men on a Horse, this preposterous comedy is like one of the more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap...
...Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...