Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four out of five Harvard Freshmen read the "funnies" regularly a poll of over 250 yearlings demonstrated, and Popeye is their favorite character, garnering 83 votes. Next to comic-land's champion spinach eater ranks Barney Geogie with 41 in the hearts of first-year...
...still the world's fourth largest theatre,* they received further premonition of the grandeur that was to come. But when the cylindrical curtain around the protruding ring-stage at last rose, result could only be described by a word from the lexicon of Jumbo's chief comic. Jimmy Durante: "Colossial...
John Drydon's "Marriage a la Mode" will be the choice of Dunster House. Only the comic sub-plot will be given. Tuesday, December 17, will be the date of this production...
...than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...Buxom Mrs. Bascom," a Lahr and Edwards comic song, was just the thing for the Opera House audience, which...