Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years Funnyman Fred Allen has cultivated a spurious feud with Jack Benny. This week he will begin to engage another comic in a more realistic fight. Having forsaken NBC because his former sponsor Bristol-Myers insisted that his hour show be reduced to 30 minutes, he starts on a CBS network for Texas Co. opposite Eddie Cantor on NBC. This season, as Bristol-Myers' substitute for Allen, Cantor will be spurred on by a contract that calls for a flat $10,000 a week, an extra $200 for every point over 20 he registers with...
...parched despair of Allen's voice is matched by his rueful features. In the classic comic tradition, he is persistently gloomy. In point of fact, his early lot was not too happy. A onetime stack-boy in the Boston Public Library, he got interested in juggling through reading a few books on the subject, soon became so proficient with balls and billiard cues that he was permitted to join a troupe of amateurs touring movie houses around Boston. Allen was subjected to all kinds of indignities. He was struck from behind with bladders, bothered by flying stuffed fish, interrupted...
...define, that thing of being in that department where you didn't know what it was all about. And so I turned my attention to writing. I tried to write a great many things, and they were all flops. I even sat and wrote a comic history of the U. S. I don't know how many thousand words I wrote, which was proof I didn't know what I was writing about. Right in the midst of my desire to become a writer I was fired. I have been fired from practically every studio in Hollywood...
...feet as a piece of music and an expression of the composer's self. Most screen scores, even the more recent ones, tend to stick pretty closely to certain standard formulae. To compose music for a comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple of years back, movie composers tinkered with classical themes as seeds for their music. The turned out by this method some very unusual scores, notably that of Swiss Family Robinson, which was built...
Publisher Roberts started Bertram off in the Star-Times this week, will have his children's comic for one month exclusively before any other newspaper gets...