Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crush "invisible government by lobbies" at Harrisburg. Mr. Earle's chief Democratic opponent is Charles D. Copeland, a Westmoreland County Judge. The Philadelphia Record, party organ in Eastern Pennsylvania, has damned Candidate Copeland as an anti-Rooseveltman and "Mellon's messenger boy." A Democratic ticket more comic than formidable is: William McNair, Mayor of Pittsburgh, for Governor; pugilistic Eddie McCloskey, Mayor of Johnstown, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader...
...Guild's 16th season, brings minuscule Ernest Truex and fluttery Spring Byington into the organization for the first time. Miss Powell is better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...
...Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just the right, light touch when she bids the comic craven, Bummerli, "Come, come, naught can efface you" in Strauss's appealing "Hero" song. The hero, who would rather eat candy than fight, is alternately Donald Brian or Charles Purcell, the revival's producers...
...long the Lampoon has been heavily laden with debts run up on extravagant ventures which failed to bring the returns expected. Serious difficulties were met with in the case of many issues and the comic found itself ensnared...
...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...