Word: funnyman
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...Philip Loeb, who directed the production, go most of the show's honors. He is the funnyman who had the famed Kaufman-Lardner line in June Moon...
...development including the cinema; 2) Asiatic trade; 3) good climate for sick or elderly citizens to enjoy years of leisure.* Sample of California's growth: Beverly Hills, picturesquely perched above Los Angeles, from 674 in 1920 to 17,428 in 1930, a gain of 2,485%. Some Beverly Hillers: Funnyman Will Rogers, Cinemactors Fairbanks, Barrymore, Gilbert, Mix, Lloyd, Cinemactresses Pickford, Davies. Cinemakers Laemmle, Mayer, Lasky, De Mille...
...chatty, homey campaign for her husband. She addressed women at the Jersey City Y. W. C. A, told of her fear of tripping in her court dress before Britain's Queen Mary, admired Her Majesty's courage for putting a pocket in her velvet brocaded gown, marveled that Funnyman Will Rogers had adopted one of her own jokes.* At Newark to a large Republican audience including Governor Morgan Foster Larsen, she detailed a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation with her husband as follows...
Last week marked the end of a contest for a new definition of art. Sponsor: the Halton Endowment for Girls, Inc. (hospital beds for working girls) of Manhattan. Judges: Funnyman Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Editor Mary Fanton Roberts of Arts & Decoration, Artist Randall Davey. Prize: ($100). Winner: Mrs. John Sloan, plump wife of famed Painter-Teacher John Sloan of Manhattan, President of the Society of Independent Artists. Mrs. Sloan's definition was publicly pronounced during the fifth annual "Carnival of Imagination," a benefit ball and pageant for the Halton Endowment. Clad in ruffles and a Spanish mantilla, Mrs. Sloan appeared...
...cheering for President Hoover's "peace talk" and the cheering for the "war resolution" prompted Funnyman Will Rogers, in his syndicated newspaper article, to ask: "Now what's the answer? The only thing I can make out of it, the Daughters like to cheer...