Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wandering Chicagoan. At the Rehn Gallery, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, 29, showed new and better work than the half-comic paintings of sleazy Chicago scenes by which he is known. Pontificated New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell: "Between the minor if vaguely haunting tightness of those minutiae and the ripe, fluent graciousness of the present work, a vast difference publishes itself." Still this side of graciousness but studied with uncommon depth were Aaron Bohrod's new subjects: poor whites, exhausted interiors of tourist cabins, a trailer camp, a sidewalk in New Orleans...
...street some moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin announced he would discard his famed tramp makeup, and in his next self-produced picture, in which he will star with Wife Paulette Goddard, he will play a "straight" comic role without costume, will talk on the screen for the first time. He would not tell anyone about the story, said only that it would be ready in "a year-perhaps...
That writeup struck me as juvenile, dis-Jionest, trite and unconvincing: because a tragedy cannot adequately be described by such comic-strip adverbs as whop! crack! and smash! TIME'S customary understatement was missing. We are not only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
Died. Frederick Burr Opper, 80, famed comic artist, creator of "Happy Hooligan," longtime potent political cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst; of heart disease ; in New Rochelle...