Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with whom his heroine mated, so long as she was bedded. Spectators who are revolted by the "morning after" scene which follows the hasty nuptials and terminates the play, can only wonder, as Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley once did: "Don't children ever play games any more...
...weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...
Divorced. Joe Cook (Joseph Lytell Cook, born Joseph Lopez), stage and cinema funnyman; from Mrs. Beatrice Helen Reynolds Cook, onetime vaudeville actress; secretly, last month; in Newark, N. J. Named: Edward Mewing, his neighbor at Lake Hopatcong...
...other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again on the annual 142-mile race to Manhattan. Many of them were professionals little known outside the outboard motor trade, but there were amateurs too: Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg, Worcester, Mass., schoolboy; four girls, one of them-Anne Townsend of Greenwich-aged 13 and having her father with her as mechanic in her runabout; C. Phelps Stevens, whose trade nickname is Jonah because he usually gets...
Once a famed comic artist, Funnyman Anthony joined the staff of Judge in 1920, became editor two years later. In 1929 Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...