Word: eds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ed Wynn, the Perfect Fool, isn't so dumb. "Do you want my definition of a hero?" he asked. "Well, a war hero is a man who gets a piece of gold on his chest for a piece of lead in his pants," he chertled...
...that's the way Ed Wynn is. He'll say some of his funniest lines in his most hysterical manner, yet he'll be thinking serious thought all the while, "Hooray For What?" his new show, now playing at the Colonial, is crammed full of delicious gags. Nevertheless, every funny line is an effective jab against war. Ed, as Chuckles, the native inventor of strange gases is always wondering what it's all about. "I hear they found a Spanish soldier in the Spanish army," he shricks. "This antuggling must be stopped...
...Ed likes Harvard. He says it has an atmosphere of culture that makes you just want to learn things. He jokes about it, too, for when, in his play, he invents a new mustard gas, he declares that he's going to send it to Cambridge to be approved by Frankfurter. In another of his lines he says, "You know, the dogs in my home town are so high class that the dog-catchers have to be Harvard...
Asked whether college men have any future on the stage, Ed said yes. College men have a certain culture and "savior faire" that is difficult to replace by experience. If the theatre is to survive, Ed thinke, college men and women must take it up as a profession...
...course the stage is Ed's preference as a dramatic medium. And comedians are his favorite type of actors; comedy is the highest form of acting, so he says, for it's much harder to make an audience laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion...