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...Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show...
...literary characters in the past decade have given the American public greater enjoyment (and a more distorted idea of the United Kingdom) than Bertie Wooster, and in Mr. Wodehouse's latest opus, his wealthy, good-natured, irresponsible hero returns, funnier than ever but with a new glint in the Wooster...
Professor Beware (Harold Lloyd-Paramount), the last practicing exponent of film slapstick appearing in a talkie which would be funnier if it did not give the impression of being an overstocked museum of silent comedy technique...
...Last week, in Age of Consent, he repeated his performance with another tale of a cautious lover and a willing lady. With several characters dead ringers for those of the earlier book, it might have seemed like too much repetition were it not that his story gets franker and funnier every time he tells...
Less substantial but funnier, Daughters and Sons varies the conventional family novel by concentrating three squabbling generations under one roof. The Ponsonbys consist of a hard-bitten old grandmother, her bludgeoning spinster daughter, her son (a popular author on the down grade), his five children. Isolated in a big country house, the Ponsonby children while away their leisure making dirty cracks about each other, unite in making dirty cracks about their grandmother, who repays them with interest. All hands join in deviling the succession of governesses. For awhile it looks as though they have met their match when one ruthlessly...