Word: custards
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...Love stories are their first choice, comedies second, society life as known to the De Mille brothers third, and then come the Westerns. Serials, tragedies and stories " with sad endings " are out of favor with both sexes. And they just hate, or at least they say they do, the custard pie varieties of comedy, over-mushy yarns and films that are brutal or untrue to life...
Sixty Cents An Hour. Ever since the recoil of a certain obese comedian from the comedy centers of California a gentleman named Walter Hiers has been striving for the heavyweight custard pie championship. Sixty Cents An Hour is his latest. For that strange stratum of the commonwealth which derives amusement from watching a ton lump of humanity at his wooing the venture is doubtless entertaining...
...PILGRIM-Chaplin as an escaping convict turned minister presents a gorgeously funny example of custard-piety. More slapstickery and less poignance than in Shoulder Arms or The Kid, but intensely amusing throughout...
...pretty play, and surpasses even the time-worn spectacle of a cat chasing its tail. The Lieutenant is the only loser; for in all probability his official carfare will be taken from him to furnish the money with which to pay the "reward". But you cannot act in a custard-pie comedy without coming into contact with some of the pie. At any rate, it does seem small for the rest of us to distrust a nation that is making so honest an effort to be ingenuously amusing...
...Sodality Orchestra has been postponed from tonight to Tuesday night, October 7, in the Music Building, at 7.30 o'clock. All old members of the orchestra are requested to report at that time. Also the following men who have been retained for further trial are requested to report: Brigman, Custard, Eschman, Estes, Fields, Fleming, Gould, Hay, Houghton, G. H. Johnson, P. Johnson, W. Johnson, Kramer, Lovett, Magruder, Marget, McElroy, Michelman., Reardon, Robinson, Sears, Strong, Taylor, Wainhouse, Warburg, Siegel is also requested to report with the above...