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Millions of U. S. Citizens read last week Funnyman Will Rogers' account of the opening of Britain's Parliament (see above). Wrote Mr. Rogers...
...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
Will Rogers, well-paid funnyman, jingled some change in his pocket, left the ballroom looking a bit depressed...
...have occurred to "Copey" to acquaint his listeners with the writing of some Harvard man-the late Poet Allan Seeger, who was doubtless one of the hundreds of men-with whom "Copey" kept up a lively correspondence as his contribution to the War; or Funnyman Robert Benchley, of Life; or Heywood Broun, idly-ambling colyumist of the New York World...