Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 8 issue is an article about Oscar Fabres, the French cartoonist, showing a comic strip which is a swipe from my own strip which appeared in Judge about 15 years...
...experience; Mike Curtiz, who took "ill" at the last moment, had Oil Man Steen Fletcher sub for him; and eight-goaler Aidan Roark, Zanuck's assistant at polo and pictures. The Actors would be spirited novice Paul Kelly, Charles Farrell, Tim Holt (son of he-man Jack) and comic Guinn ("Big Boy") Williams. Over their hearts the Actors would wear the initials G. R.-for Ginger Rogers, their sponsor...
...committee has already suggested a name for the affair, to which all dancers will be expected to come dressed as characters from the funnypapers. However, Lyford has rejected the name put forward on the grounds that it is "salacious and misleading." The suggested title was, "The Lowell House Comic Strip Dance...
...plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and Higher is really floored by the Servant Problem. As though that were not enough, the show goes in for haunted rooms, visitors from Iceland, phantom coachmen, hidden wine cellars, a butlers' ball. Otherwise there is virtually no plot...
...Your Health. But it's their slimmest job in a number of years. Making her first U. S. appearance in musicomedy, Hungarian Actress Marta Eggert (wife of Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura) is pleasing but not outstanding; returning to Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, Comic Jack Haley is amusing but not uproarious. Biggest thing in the show is a trained seal named Sharkey. Unfortunately, he is provided with the smallest part...