Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday afternoon, November 28, Mr. de Pachman, having established himself as the funniest pianist alive in his recent "farewell" tour will return to Symphony Hall...
...artist; yet they cannot deny his versatility. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize with his gloomy, bitter Icebound. He has now delivered himself of the most supremely silly, the most thunderously amusing of farces. Otto Kruger, the hero, steps immediately into the front rank of our funniest farceurs...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...
...spots, a rather dull attempt to anyone not historically interested in the development of the revue. The bright spots include Peggy and Cortez' exceptional dancing, a low-comedy picnic -Keep Off the Grass, Collier and Bernard as Mr. and Mrs. Davidson in a burlesque of Rain* But the funniest thing in the show is a would-be serious ballet dealing with an Orchid, a Flame and Two Butterflies. This would furnish a likely subject for a W. E. Hill cartoon...
Heywood Broun: "Far and away the, feeblest of the current revues" Percy Hammond: "Not the most magnificent of the current revues but the funniest...