Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indeed, to wax poetic", he continued: "'Tis (three score) years since Carroll's art, With topsy-turvy magic, Sent Alice wondering through a part Half-comic and half tragic...
There is very little acting except saying of lines and screaming. That one can forgive. But inasmuch as every third scene or so is comic relief, it is a little disappointing to find no comedy. Besides Ricardo Cortez and Mary Aster, there is a new girl in the picture named Kay Linaker. We wish that we could be as confident as Warner Brothers that she is "destined for stardom shortly...
...around as background for the youngsters, the older members of the cast steal the show for themselves. If this turn of events surprised Playwright Riggs, Playwright Riggs, hitherto noted for poetic horse operas like Green Grow the Lilacs, simply flabbergasted Broadway by revealing an unsuspected talent for Grade A comic characterization...
BING Crosby was christened Harry Lillis, but no one dares call him Lillis now. He got the Bing because in his first breeches he always asked to have the Bingvilie Bugle comic strip read to him. He entered Gonzage University (Spokane) after a taste of running away from home, and did what theatrical people in college seem to do, organized an orchestra and paid more attention to drums and clarinet than philosophy and religion...
According to Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that...