Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussia from 1920 until this year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free State of Prussia...
...Follies,' and it is by no chance that the role is hers, for she knows by heart the thoughts, words and deeds of the regally gilded queens of Broadway. . . . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has assembled its greatest cast since Grand Hotel*. . . ." This cast: Robert Montgomery; Zasu Pitts, independent comic who does bit work in so many cinemas she seldom learns their plots, cannot remember their titles; James Gleason, who in this one supplies the pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with...
...Comic Artist, a play by Pulitzer Prizewinner Susan Glaspell (Alison's House) & her husband, Norman Matson...
Hundreds of persons telephoned daily to the newspaper offices to learn the progress of their favorite comic strips...
...fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities qualify him to make strong men cower and women swoon. Bela's zombie factory is going full-blast. Corpses carry baskets, grind the mill, do the upstairs work. Bela Lugosi suggests to half-good, half...