Word: comics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other feature, "Little Orphan Annie," the ordinarily hard-to-bear Mitzi Green is absolutely insufferable. Those who follow the comic strip assidously will be grievously disappointed to see Sandy a German shepherd and Daddy Warbucks an insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee...
...this point came a new twist in the playwright's career which amplified his versatility, provided an explanation for the underlying motif of his comic sense...
Pigeons and People (by George Michael Cohan, producer), subtitled "a comic state of mind in continuous action," runs in one long act like Philip Barry's Hotel Universe. A benevolent insurance tycoon comes back to his apartment trailed by an elderly, jaunty bum named Parker (Actor...
Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
Some of Huxley's notes: The Nature of Love, Physical Passion, Old Age, Progress, Money, Comic Poetry, Obscurity in Poetry. God, Death. Authors quoted range from Sappho to Paul Valery, include many passages from U. S. Poet Walt Whitman but only one from a living English poet, William Henry Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish...