Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...newspaper lore is the legend of a young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with...
Many a U. S. highbrow (notably Gilbert Seldes) has "discovered" the comic strip, along with the cinema, burlesque et al. Advanced is the theory that the social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
...delectable as Bovril are such Bovril puns as, "When it's in you-it's sinew!" or, "Don't let him-Mrs. Bovril." Bovril slogans can be didactic ("Bovril puts beef into you"), appositive ("The world-famous beef-tea"), enticing ("Bovril tickles the palate"), or purely comic ("Take Bovril and keep up to Pa," with a picture of a small boy standing on a bottle of Bovril). Competing beef extracts-like Oxo, which comes in cubes, Lemco, in crocks, or Beefex-have never endangered Bovril's prestige. Hitherto, Bovril sales in the U. S. and Canada...
Stepping Sisters (Fox) is a frantic little farce, derived from the comic strips via Broadway, where a play by the same name enjoyed an almost surreptitious run a year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...