Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Abbott, recalled agreeably for his comic cowboy in Zander the Great, stepped beyond his depth in the lead. He seemed to manufacture the part instead of living in it. Martha Bryan-Allen gave her usual competent performance as the child; while the single bit of really excellent acting was contributed by Elizabeth Patterson as a black silk mother-in-law of rocky prejudice...
Such was the admission of DeWolf Hopper, the famous comedian who is giving a repertoire of comic opera at the Boston Opera House, when he was interviewed in his dressing room by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hooper will begin a week's performance of "Pinafore" on Monday, and between the acts, he will give again the dramatic presentation of this poem by a Harvard man, which he has already given over fifteen thousand times...
...other hand, Blease, unless awed to silence and helplessness by the traditions and dignity of the Senate, would be a continuing scream, a clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...
...gathered in its train a vast array of imitators of which just one, Runnin' Wild, preserved the tradition. A second offshoot has appeared, fresh off the same family tree and quite in character. In dissecting The Chocolate Dandies, the observer finds the comedy of Sissle and Blake typically comic, the male quartet magnificently melodious, the chorus high in aggregate activity, and the piano playing of Eubie Blake almost an evening's entertainment in itself...
...Knitting Mills, Inc., began last June issuing red bathing-girl pasters to automobile agencies and garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin...