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...bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Chairmen Hamilton cannot be accused of the naivete of Hearst, and their irresponsible impeachments must be taken soley as a screen to hide their own mediocrity. The importance placed by the National Chairman upon David Dubinsky's position as an elector for the President is a Republican jest even funnier than most when one considers what the American eletoral college has long since become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON FENCE | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...after first-night clumsiness, the technicians manage to get the inserted scraps of hilarious movies running right, and if nothing funnier comes along, this frivolous little tidbit, should do well enough...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

...girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick is effective. On the whole, however, though readers could not have asked for a louder burlesque, they could have wished for a funnier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fig for Cinderella | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Benchly's short on How to Sleep and How to Wake Up, turned out to be funnier than we thought it was going to be, although the ending was rather wet. All in all, the "Uni" has a successful billing for the first half of the week, and we look forward to "The Tale of Two Cities," which follows this program...

Author: By H. M. P. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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