Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missouri may raise the most mules but surely Alabama raises the funniest ones. As far back as I can remember I have been regaled with stories of this remarkable quadruped. And now, "honor to whom honor is due." The enclosed clipping is self-explanatory...
...Army Game (W. C. Fields). Mr. Fields is one of the funniest of movie madmen. He is, unfortunately for the movies, too often concerned with legitimate acting. In this latest film they have taken many of the skits which he has made famous in vaudeville and revues and strung them together in a loose and often ludicrous adventure. There is no story. Mr. Fields plays a village druggist who involves himself in a variety of domestic difficulties. His lovely clerk (Louise Brooks) runs away with a real estate salesman. Outside of the few metropoles which have watched Mr. Fields...
Some of the funniest scenes of the play center on Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Craigle, played by J. M. Gates '27, and C. T. F. B. lyon '27. This pair, as the henpecked husband and the nagging wife, sling some gags that will make your hair curl, and exude one song, "Life Is No Bed Roses" that, in the words of one of the Graduates' Night audience, is "sure fire...
Shubert--"Naughty Riquette", with Mitzi and Stanley Lupino at 8.00. The only difference between this show and "Naughty Cinderella" is that Riquette is picked up in a perfectly good telephone office and Stanley Lupino is one of the funniest men we have ever seen...
Kipling saw a picture, painted by Burne-Jones and shocked the world of women's colleges by writing the "Vanipire". And then Theda Bara played it in the movies and shocked the rest of the world by saying, "Kiss me, my fool" to one of the funniest looking specimens ever decorated with the early editions of Form Fit Sartorial subtleties. But Kipling never reached the heights in that verse which he attained in "The Ladies". I fancy he never reached such heights anywhere else, and I've read all the verse he ever wrote, read it and re-read...