Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Temporary Husband. Sidney Chaplin, brother of the sovereign Charlie, makes an excellent comic butler. He assists his master to marry the heroine by the insidious device of disguising him in a luxuriant growth of false whiskers and substituting him at the hour of the ceremony for the aged gentleman she intended to marry...
...collection also includes Punch's Pocketbooks, illustrated by John Leech and others; Comic Alamanacks, by Cruikshanks; and the very rare Kate Greenaway Almanacks...
...Hospitality. The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious. Father Keaton, Mr. and Mrs. Buster and Baby Buster. Buster is, of course, the comic prop sustaining the family fortune. He is a trifle quieter than usual. He invades a Southern town where his ancestors feuded with the Canfields. The latter, unwittingly, invite him to their, house and find themselves in the uncomfortable position of not being able to shoot him owing to their reverence for the traditions of Southern hospitality. Mrs. Buster Keaton was, of course, Natalie Talmadge. She is nearly as exciting as her more...
...some serious, even tragic moments; except for the opening scene on the "love boat", where impecunious Chinese fathers sell their extra daughters to close-fisted connoisseurs of female charms, and several passages in which Miss Bushnell, as Ming Toy, is given free rein, the St. James version is entirely comic, though certainly no less entertaining on that account...
...blurb says: "This newspaper will picture local, national and international news and events by actual photographs. Other features: United News despatches, leased wire coast despatches, household and fashion pages, sports and children's pages, harbor and shipping news and an unrivaled comic section. . . . Clean, fearless and independent. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Editor and Publisher...