Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hobo is far from being the comic figure he is often thought to be. In the first place, as we are often reminded, he is not to be confused with a tramp: he rides on freight trains, true enough, and often panhandles a meal; but he expects to work for a living; is, in fact, a migratory laborer. In the second place, although many of us do not realize it, he is an almost indispensable unit in the economic structure of the country. He is the gentleman who picks our oranges, lemons and grapefruit in Florida and California...
...above the dome of the State House and over the dome of the Mother Church and high above the accordian pleated sincerity of each honest urban heart will smile an unknown god who moves in a pillar of wisdom--and the god's name? Meredith called him the Comic Spirit...
...play possesses on unusual feature. The man who in the first act is very distinctly a comic relief character, turns out to be most important before the end. In the part of Dr. Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
...Savage, my manager then, merely laughed and told me not to mind the audience. Immediately afterwards, I was entered in comic roles. That is the reason why I am now playing in musical comedies and not in dramatic performances...
...Lady Isabel, who runs away with the mustached and booted villain and comes to no good end in Paris. Miss Blair is more often associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill, having created more of his heroines than any other actress. She shows in East Lynne a comic talent which peeped but timidly from behind the truth-stained characters of this greatest dramatist...