Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
Syndicate managers last week could think of no previous occasion when an incumbent President had appeared in the funnies. There seemed little likelihood that comic cartoonists would seek the prerogatives of political cartoonists...
...inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with the old lady blackmailing him for no crime, the bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better, brighter, the more he sees of her. By the time his emotions are most involved...
...narrow-minded sister is engaged to an up-and-coming son of a grocery man (Cary Grant). The part of Linda is just made for Miss Hepburn, who turns in a delightful and talented performance. Cary Grant is adequate while Edward Everett Horton shoulders the burden of the comic entertainment. Despite the efforts of each member of the cast, however, the whole effect is not convincing and wavers uncertainly between seriousness and humor...
...young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...