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Before leaving Detroit for a tour of Canada, Britain's oldtime music-hall comedienne Grade Fields fired a parting shot at her fellow comedians: "Everybody is trying to be too clever and too quick these days. It's the day of the gag writer. The actors grab their dreary little scripts and study them frantically for a half hour, and then expect to put on a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Television had not yet invaded their innocence. But skippers had long since succumbed to the radio gag. Now, oldtimers noted sadly the old favorite had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Icka Backa, Soda Cracker | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Herewith an up-to-date picture of Marion & husband Jack Douglas, an unreformed gag writer turned comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Combined Charities volunteer workers last fall came across a donation of $17 carmarked for the Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Having had experience with jokers, they labeled it just another gag and consigned it to the unallocated funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gags and Charity | 5/10/1950 | See Source »

...patchwork comedy with some time-tested, surefire slapstick sequences involving lions on the loose. These scenes, dragged in by the heels and worked to the bone, help to bolster a film whose authors apparently never rejected any gag that popped into their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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