Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Oliver G. Dickman, comic artist (who drew The Life of Reilly in The New York Evening World), in St. Louis, suicide by asphyxiation, on the eve of his wedding to Miss Viola Schubert of St. Louis...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...
...opportunity of playing on the pecularities of adolescence Mr. Tarkington has created a hero with his brain just a trifle off center. Thus the youth, physically and financially at the highly marriageable state of 21, is able to engage in a serious love affair which has all the comic possibilities of Willie Baxter. For those whose passion is eugenics such a creation, with the implied probability of its recreation in a young generation of Tweedle-Castleburys, may seem a trifle inconsidered. Among the first night audience none thus disturbed could be discerned...
...Comic Opera...
...from the Reds. Bombacci speechless with rage; waves arms, ruffles hair, pulls beard. Silence. Bombacci recovers power of speech: " You stand for barbarism, not civilization. You could not publish a Fascist newspaper in Moscow because there is a law against it? You Fascisti are guilty of having made a comic opera of revolution...