Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with these bouquets distributed, one must retire. "Weeds...
Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest...
...hear many people tell you that the glamor of the stage wears off quickly, but I have not found it so," De Wolf Hopper, whose career as a comic actor dates back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...
Asked by his interviewer to name the composers of comic opera whom he considered to be the most notable, Mr. Hopper protested that such a request was beyond his power. "Gilbert and Sullivan, I think, will never die. They are to the English musical stage what Shakespeare is to the drama. But there are many other composers of considerable skill. The think that distinguishes a mediocre man from the skillful composer is that the latter fits the music to the scene, while the former merely writes notes that have no particular continuity, though they may be very tuneful...
...comic talents of George Bernard Shaw were combined with the keen tragic sense of John Galsworthy, the easy virtuosity of Pinero and the poetic imagination of Barrie."?(That caustic 100 percenter) H. L. Mencken...