Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summoned by the playwright. Father and mother are about to disagree amiably in order that father may marry another. Daughter is horrified; grandfather and grandmother combine with their children's child to prevent the family schism. Their efforts are for the most part amusing and occasionally approach a comic brilliance...
Simonetta is the specific for them both. In the second act she succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...
Examples are legion. How many thousands of times has a comedian let a match burn until it singes his fingers? How many million people have laughed at his resulting agitation? In nearly every musical show ever produced one character or another, exit bound, will bump into the wings for comic effect. Hundreds of pairs of comedians have walked with increasing rapidity up and down the stage until one suddenly queries the other: "Who's winning...
...Cizek says four is not too young to start active work. Then they are unspoiled by comic strips and jazz. For 20 years he has been turning out successful artists, but only as a by-product of a school where creative expression is the real goal...
Franklin Pierce Adams, famed editor of The Conning Tower, comic column of The New York World: " One William McAndrew, writing in the November World's Work, adjured me to compose verses that, if memorized, would serve as a reminder to children to be careful when crossing the streets. Wrote...