Word: contorts
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Most novel of the evening's performers will be Arthur Blake, mimic of White House fame, who scored hits in two command performances before the President and First Lady. It is expected that Blake will contort the Freshmen with his popular impersonation of Mrs. Roosevelt, which, the nation's press reported, was very well received on Capitol Hill...
...Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog's or that he can comically contort his vast physiognomy. Author Cobb possesses, in addition, the same cinematic quality which assisted his great & good friend Will Rogers to stardom: the inability to be anything but himself...
...remarkable success of the Vokes. They sing and dance fairly well, to be sure; but any variety house has artistes who can do as well. Their wit is decidedly weak, breathing throughout of London Punch; but for all this, we have seen people almost split their sides, and permanently contort their faces over one of Fred or "Georgy" Vokes' puns...