Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...
...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...almost comic indication of how vastly Pilsudski bulks above "Honest Ignatz" was seen when the Marshal peremptorily "invited" the new President to reside in the Belvedere Palace, where Pilsudski himself is lodged...
Misdemeanor, the work of a Colyumist, outdoes the weekly ebullitions of a similar nature in the other College Comic. The author has evidently perused the parallel column with some regularity and something less than whole-hearted admiration...
...college graduate is the figure that the comic papers make him out to be, and the some professors scold about, it is the fault of the Faculty. If he returns to the college and interferes unintelligently in the academic administration, if he demands reforms of which he knows nothing, it is because the Faculty persists in handing the undergraduate student his diploma in the attitude of now be off with you," while at the same time it seeks from the graduate the very means of its own existence...