Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gowns and to prove, superfluously, that she is still the most affected young woman on the U. S. screen. Likely to be popular, because of its stars and a rapid-fire style in which Director Robert Leonard shows the influence of Frank Capra, After Office Hours contains one genuinely comic sequence: a lunchroom proprietor (Henry Armetta) working himself into a slow rage when his patrons comment disdainfully on his taste in radio entertainment...
...Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria under the name of the Handel Largo. The Saxon composer wrote Xerxes as a comic opera, when he was depressed by Bankruptcy woes in London. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's birth, Xerxes was revived last week by the State Opera in Berlin and by the music department at the University of Chicago...
...toward the middle of the piece when the King's wife (Mary Ellis), who has run away from home because the King's beard tickled, comes back and finds the actor in the King's bedchamber minus beard. Eugene Pallette, as Brisson's stooge, contributes comic relief with gags like: Lord Chancellor: "The Queen's bedroom must remain inviolate." Pallette: "Violet's all right. I just wanted to sleep there...
Unmoved by Dickens' crocodile tears, Biographer Kingsmill applauds his comic vein to the echo, calls The Pickwick Papers "his greatest book and the finest example of comic impressionism in our literature." He sniffs at Dickens' "Bravery" in championing social reforms, says his dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole...
...last year's $9,000,000, some $2,000,000 was collected by William Randolph Hearst's Comic Weekly, which is circulated with his 17 Sunday papers (circulation, 6,000,000). Comic Weekly consisted of 16 pages, and its advertising space sold for $16,000 a page, $9,000 a half-page. Few months ago Publisher Hearst's smart editors & managers pondered a bold idea. By turning the paper sidewise, i.e. into tabloid form, twice as many comics could be packed in without using an ounce more of newsprint. More comics should bring more circulation...