Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cream in My Coffee." Georges Carpentier is in it. He has to sing sometimes, but he also puts on a flashy two-round bout with a light heavy named Tony Stabenau which is undoubtedly the best piece of fighting ever done in a revue. Best shot: an old gag from silent pictures in which, after taking a blow on the jaw in a farce bout with a fighter not mentioned on the program, Comedian Joe E. Brown bounces across the ring from one set of ropes to the other as though each set were a catapult...
...revue, but now shapes the same sort of entertainment to form musicomedies. The chief attraction of Flying High is a onetime vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does...
...named Harry Green does justice to the stout humor of this play which Actor Edward G. Robinson helped to write and starred in on the legitimate stage last year. Wall Street as seen from a corner store uptown by a market-wise seller of cigars is the background. Typical gag: Harry Green betting on a horse because the horse is going to retire from the track and has never won a race and it is his belief that every horse must win at least one race sometime. Best shot: interview between the cigar store owner and the millionaire stock trader...