Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debts with 5% bonds. In three years the company was on a paying basis. Ochs and his relatives own 64% of the stock and return to the business the greater part of the profits made. The result is that the Times, although it has never taken up with comic strips, Sunday supplements, etc., has gone ahead as steadily- more steadily perhaps-as any other metropolitan paper...
...easy enough, he believes, to write music that will draw tears out of the emotional listener, but few composers have succeeded in pulling a laugh. Not even jazz can do it. Cowell thus promises to become the progenitor of a race of U. S. musicians exclusively devoted to the Comic Muse. France has already started such a line with Eric Satie and his followers, the "Group...
...Louis has recently become the scene of a successful musical experiment. In a cup-shaped auditorium seating 10,000, opera, grand or comic, has been given nightly. The principal singers and comedians are imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
...York Times-"Plenteously comic...
...Comic Supplement?The Ziegfeld factory will turn out a musical comedy by J. P. McEvoy, starring Leon Errol...