Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert and Edward Horton compete for honors in the comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...
...Express's 2,400,000 copies), the Times makes up in weighty prestige. Sometimes a hint from the Times's "parliamentary correspondent" paves the way for action at No. 10 Downing Street. Rarely the Times thunders forth, altering British policy. During a crisis foreign embassies with almost comic concern telephone the Times to learn what it is going to say, take its words as the British attitude, often before the Foreign Office has made up its mind...
...Arlen; lyrics by E. Y. Harburg; produced by the Shuberts). Coming after bad advance reports, last-minute cast trouble, and fears that Ed Wynn had been so bad on the radio that he would keep a theatre audience away, Hooray For What! proved to be an ingratiating show, with Comic Wynn just as funny as he used to be. Sometimes the plot shuffled dully between old-fashioned musicomedy and pretentious satire, but it ceases to matter when Ed Wynn comes on. wringing his hands as if he thought man would be better off without them. Like Chaplin, he has always...
Jack Buchanan breezes through the role of the doubly devoted husband. He sings his songs without raising his voice; he scarcely gets up to do his dances. His insouciance and absent-mindedness seem very real, and make of him a most likeable comic hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...
...object; let sordid souls seek that." No sordid soul but a top-notch syndicator, General Manager Monte Bourjaily resigned from United Feature Syndicate last September, bought Judge to have fun & make money. He found Judge's financial ill health too much ingrained. When Life disappeared as a comic weekly and reappeared as a picture magazine. Judge lost a competitor besides acquiring old Life's circulation and features, but Judge's net paid circulation averaged only 181,902 for the first half of 1937.* By August, Publisher Bourjaily was optimistically soliciting subscribers with a chain-letter plan. Last...