Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead of action to make it intelligible. Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement (of which, strange...
Here, however, the comic papers of the leading universities have large staffs and special buildings and are generally more elaborate and more widely read. And I must say that they seem to me to be more comic. In particular, they have more artists. At O. and C. there is no dearth of young men who can write--I mean, will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case...
Among the actors in former shows who are to appear in this year's production are Albert Palmer 4E.S. and P. L. Cheney 2S.A., whose comic dances in "All Fareedah" and "The Late Mr. Kidd" were said to be among the funniest scenes in those two shows. J. F. Lautner ocC., who had a leading part in the 1920 play, will appear this year as a troubadour...
...source of unwaining pleasure to see the burden of the action slip from the chief actor to the subordinates without a sickening sense of unintended comic relief, even without any unpleasant realization that they are subordinates. To Horatio, always a sympathetic part, Mr. Lewis brings a personality and a voice that suggest more than a little of the charm which bound Hamlet to him. So small a part as the First Player was made memorable by Mr. Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though...
...comic acting of Mr. Robert Woolsey, in the part of Henry Watkins, the New Jersey judge, is largely what raises "The Right Girl", now playing at the Park Square Theatre, above the average of musical comedies. His work, though sometimes labored, is always entertaining, and brought enthusiastic applause from an audience which seemed pleased by the performance in general, and Mr. Woolsey in particular. Mr. Woolsey was also fortunate in having the best lines, and his remarks about "forgetting to touch second" and "Run along and count your marbles" were particularly successful...