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...audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...
...appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done by high school dramatic clubs, best done by the Guild. The Vanderbilt Revue. There are comparatively few funnywomen, none of whom are funnier than hearty, contagious, coarse Lulu McConnell. Four years ago she created the part of an immensely amusing low-life in a little show called Peggy Ann on the same stage to which she returned last week as the chief comic in The Vanderbilt Revue. In one of her skits - revived...
...insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing. His Republican rivals have conceded that "he enters...
...comedy, a war picture of the hommes 40 chevaux 8 type, was above the average. Even the slapstick seemed funnier than usual. Another feature was an excellent display of football scrimmages in slow motion interspersed with explanations by Knute Rockre...
...Native (Paramount). In spite of hilarious moments of good slapstick, and the deft spontaneous playing of Jack Oakie, this is the kind of picture that disappoints its makers and audiences because neither can figure out why it isn't funnier. The trouble really is that it is a comedy built around a comic situation. That is a dramatic fallacy. Only the great geniuses of slapstick-and Oakie's talent is not for that-can make a funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes...