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Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
Irving Trust Co. faced its funny new task with equanimity last week, announced that the magazine would continue publication under its present board of funnymen, including Drama Critic George Jean Nathan, Bridge Expert Sydney Lenz. With their help Irving Trust hopes to pull Judge out of receivership...
Screen comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...
Rhapsody in Black. Producer Lew Leslie, who used to put on an annual Blackbirds review with colored chorus girls, funnymen and blackouts, has evidently become very serious about the Negro's part in the art of the theatre. Rhapsody in Black spurns the traditional habiliments of a blackamoor review, presents instead "a symphony in blue notes and black rhythm." That is to say, the show is not very amusing. It is not boring either...
Fred Andrew Stone and Will Rogers, funnymen, gave Washington's Smithsonian Institution an oldtime nine-passenger Wild West stagecoach, built by a "G. Gerald, Blacksmith, Concord...