Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...esthetic ambition is made unnecessary when a picture painted by the father is judged bad enough to be used in an advertising campaign. Doris Kenyon and Lewis Stone perform ably as the middle-aged couple concerned, but whatever prizes accrue to the cinema should rightly be given to Funnyman Charles Butterworth. In the impersonation of a woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant, meanders about at a fancy dress party in a Colonial costume and a wig which makes him look like...
...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
...Democratic Theatrical League. The Dowling political loyalty perhaps more than the hygienic merits of Honeymoon Lane, caused New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wire quotable congratulations after viewing the picture. His able campaigning for Governor Smith and Roosevelt, his huge popularity (particularly among Roman Catholics) caused Funnyman Dowling to be mentioned a year ago as a possible candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, where his parents, named Goucher, christened him Eddie Dowling 36 years...
...musicomedy actor. Although he has dropped his last name, he is proud of the supposition that he had pedagogical progenitors, of the fact that his great-grandfather and two great-granduncles founded Goucher College (for women) in Baltimore. Fond of corned-beef, cabbage, good beer and other Irish luxuries, Funnyman Dowling says he would like to be an official in an orphanage so that he could amuse the inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed two of his pictures, was shown to have obtained its funds from fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly...
Engaged. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 44, cinema's oldtime fat funnyman, now director of comedies under the name of "William Goodrich" for Educational Films Corp.; and Addie McPhail, 24, cinemactress. Funnyman Arbuckle left the screen ten years ago after being acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Cinemactress Virginia Rappe. Last month readers of Photoplay magazine voted for his return (TIME, June...