Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best feature idea Editor Patterson ever had was to fatten the size of the Sunday comic section. Because he felt that the encroachment of comic advertising had made the real funny strips too small, he ordered the section increased from eight to 16 pages last autumn. He reckoned that the addition might bring a 50,000 circulation gain. Instead the Sunday circulation, which then averaged 2,000,000, leaped enormously every Sunday until last month when it hit 2,313,000, a gain of more than 500,000 over last spring. Advertising, daily and Sunday, also gained enormously...
...Park Theater is not of pristine quality. The chorus is as usual but another testimonial to the proverb that beauty, unlike fine wine or Dunhill briars, does not improve with age and constant handling. Let this be no deterrent, however, to those who view life with the comic spirit, for such will find the entertainment eminently laughable. And since no smoking is allowed at the Park Theater, the stage is always clearly visible...
...play offers nothing unusual or starting, yet is it dished up in a manner novel enough to make it attractive to the casual playgoer. In the familiar situation of a family with a tradition whose son falls for the peroxide rinse adventuress, we have a large assortment of old comic standbys, prominent among whom is the crusader for unrepressed sex, the avid reader of Havelock Ellis...
...comic trials of Henry's long-suffering wife (able Rose McClendon of Porgy) increase, as Henry's sister-in-law becomes increasingly acidic on the subject of Henry's laziness, not a few spectators may be reminded of those unpretentious little Irish genre comedies of the Abbey Players. The parallelism goes further in the wake scene, after Henry is supposed to have gone off despondently and drowned himself. Needless to say, Henry reappears, alive and happy in a store-bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted...
...story has been yanked directly from the comic sheets and shows it; not only that, but it has also been diluted with Hollywood sentimentality. A poor farm boy goes to the big city, and becomes famous as a prize fighter. Whereupon he immediately starts to sow a large crop of wild oats with the expert help of Lupe Velez. But his old mother back on the farm hears about it, and, being well aware of the traps that these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from...