Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiere Brothers, an amazing trio of acrobatic dancers, nearly stop the show and Shea and Raymond contribute some good comic steps. Sam, Ted, and Ray are cast in a Haile Selassie farce that gives them an opportunity for more excellent dancing...
...holding the whip in the State House. To say that such a rank political trick endangers public confidence in the courts is too obvious a truth to emphasize. But, after all, what influence can such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence in, or respect...
...current version, infinitely more sophisticated, is chiefly noteworthy as an example of directorial tact. Aware that much of the motivation in Way Down East is of the sort which contemporary cinemaddicts have been taught to consider comic, Henry King must frequently have been tempted to burlesque the story rather than risk having audiences discover their own laughs in its sentimental climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm...
...York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows a jury selected from the audience to settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance" presents Miss Gladys George as a big star with some very amusing lines and situations. "Pride and Prejudice" opened Wednesday night and received almost unconditional approval from the savants. "A Slight Case of Murder" is approximately slightly amusing. "Squaring The Cricle...
Greatest gamble of his career was on the Monte Carlo Ballet. Once he had safely launched, he was ready to plunge again. This winter his roster is rich. Besides the Ballet, the Cathedral Choir and the Vienna Singing Boys, he will present a comic dancer named Trudi Schoop and her ballet from Switzerland. He is advertising first U. S. tours for Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, Russian Pianist Rudolf Serkin, the Kolisch String Quarte from Germany, and a Palestinian, Sarah Osnath-Halevy, who dances and chants in Arabian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Persian...