Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose...
...years ago Harold Lincoln Gray was an obscure artist on the Chicago Tribune, understudying Cartoonist Sidney Smith and lettering in his comic strip "The Gumps." One day in 1924 Gray showed...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...
...drive for an enlarged circulation, the 1937 Red Book has included a comic section in their issue which is to come out on Friday afternoon, it was announced last night by Charles C. Gibson '37, editor-in-chief...