Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquittal of a Herington, Kan. newsdealer of charges that he had violated the State's "blue laws" against unessential labor on Sunday. His "offense": selling the Sunday edition of the Kansas City Star. Opined the court: "From the small boy, whose first thought on arising Sunday morning is the comic section, to the son grown older who turns eagerly to the sport page; the young daughter, who peruses the society columns, and father and mother, who turn their attention to the more serious pages, the Sunday paper is looked upon and has grown to be a necessity...
...arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least amateurish of the cast in this particular play. Fortunately, there is only one comic detective, and he does not last long enough to matter. The guileless secretary and her lover do their respective jobs well, and do not overact. The rest of the cast may be described as being more than adequate...
...movies go "Mother's Millions" is refreshing. Here is a film with a definitely serious tone, and yet it is neither a mystery story her relentlessly realistic. Also the picture is punctuated with frequent humorous occasions, yet it is divorced from the current comic tradition, either slap-stick or sophisticated...
...this time Professor Shaw could no longer choke down his laughter. Slapping his middle he burst out: "What a comic world!" Then related just how it all had happened...
...school of clowns whose humor derives from ineffectuality; a certain eccentric excitability makes him sometimes hilariously funny. His gaiety is without grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...