Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley...
...increase of 30 over last year. The Theatre Guild announced that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman Ed Wynn thought prospects were bright enough to buy Simple Simon (last season's Ziegfeld show in which he appeared) to take on tour...
...tasteful production. On the same ilk as Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...
...born chairman and president of Canadian National Railways, made a speech. One day the thermometer registered 99º. Hotel rooms were at a premium. The gilded lobbies of the Stevens Hotel ("World's Largest"), haven for many a convention, were crowded with milling men and women. Funnyman Will Rogers said "Twenty thousand Rotarians walking the streets of Chicago . . . not a one has been shot or robbed. It looks like negligence." The occasion: Rotary International's Silver Anniversary Convention, held last week in Chicago, birthplace of Rotary. Some 15,000 delegates attended, fortified with good cheer, name plates, geographical...