Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemaddicts unfamiliar with Hollywood fashions, it may seem strange that so sad a picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna...
Marriage Revealed-Buster Keaton, 36, film, funnyman; and one May Scribbens; as of Jan. 8 in Ensenada, Mexico, seven months before Keaton's divorce from Natalie Talmadge will become final. Said Keaton: "The marriage is okay in Mexico." Said the Ensenada judge: "I know Mr. Keaton but I have never married him to anybody...
Potato-nosed Jimmy Durante, the living composite of Manhattan cab drivers, did not have to work hard for his laughs. Covered with characteristic confusion, Funnyman Durante finds himself trying to climb over the orchestra pit to assert his identity when an impostor is introduced on stage in the second scene. He appears to be, as usual, utterly unable to control his feelings. He shakes his parrotlike head, hurls his hat at the band, indulges his ignorant fondness for British idioms, tells the old one about the floorwalker who thought he was about to be kicked by the dog, sings snatches...
...which she was also associated with uncouth Mr. Durante, she does not have much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...
Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...