Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jobs for a newspaper and, finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept, as has Don Marquis, the really fine quality of his imagination unsullied. An idea of beauty is quite as important...
Bringing Up Father. For ten years, various travesties and musical digressions on the family of Mr. George McManus' comic strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...
...curious and tiresome ramble among the tangled mental paths of idiocy. Such wanderings must be comic or terrible. The Dunce Boy was, unfortunately, both...
...Book Reviews" and the Theatre and Art comment in the Advocate's "Dial" number march under the same umbrella of solemnity that covers the originals they imitate, but with this difference--the elf of the comic spirit is calmly wagging his ears over each...
...tabulate their own conduct, definite statistics from one group of men at least would have been the result. A much more interesting and valuable set of statistics could be obtained from a similar census of the whole college. Confronted with such figures that delightful myth, so popular among comic writers and moralists of the older generation, which patterns college life as a constant rush from gin lo Scotch must shrivel and die. A more scientific discussion of the whole problem of prohibition might be inaugurated by the gathering of detailed and accurate statistics...