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...long, belongs to that school of comedians originated by the late, droll Raymond Hitchcock. He takes personal charge of the proceedings, tells the audience what is going on backstage and when a joke is too feeble to put itself across. Mr. Fay has an assistant who starts shouting, "Eh? Eh?" This is not very funny...
...some tulapai [aboriginal moonshine]. I rode past white girl's house. She stopped me and offered me a drink of water, then she spoke of dance. Asked me if I would lend her a horse. I said only had one. She said, 'Maybe I ride behind you, eh? I see lots of your people doing it.' I said. 'Those people married.' She said, 'That's all right.' Then she asked me in. She had something in a bottle ... I drank some. It burned my neck...
Apparently Mr. Craven has only to open his mouth to make an audience laugh. Loudest whoops of first-week spectators arose from a gag that enjoyed wide circulation in 1924. Mr. Craven, complaining about his friend's liquor, remarks: "Prewar, eh...
...shall take full precautions and I shall maintain peace so long as I have the honor to be where I am. It has been charged against me that it is I who by my weakness am preparing for war. There are people who say and write that. Eh bien! Behind them are the people of France, who do not believe...
...concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...