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...picture of the winning girl will replace the sinking ship on the cover of the V-12 gag-mag, The Periscope. Announcement of the winners and the runners-up will be made at the dance, and complete stories of the contest will be found in the magazine...
...personality into the role of an unofficial U.S. ambassador-at-large. A hearty haunter of nightspots, lacking a sharp critical sense or the appetite for one, Reynolds is so confessedly fond of all kinds of people that his Collier's bosses have turned the trait into a shop gag. They say that Reynolds, dispatched to do a story on a big manufacturer, returned to exclaim: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Home from inter viewing the President of the U.S., he cried: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Back from interrogating a Jack the Ripper, he foamed: "A great...
...question about it; Bob Hope is about the funniest comic the movies have had since the departure of Groucho Marx, and it will still take the Moviegoer a long time to get tired of him. His fertile mind and the rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...
U.S.O. hit on a solution: a one-man U.S. gag factory established in London to turn out material for touring entertainers. The man chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...
...patron saint of gag men. He was a celebrated player of comedy parts in the plays of Shakespeare, Congreve, Jonson, Fielding, etc. His name, after his death in 1738, was fastened to a book of 247 jokes, sayings, anecdotes (Joe Miller's Jests; or The Wits Vade-Mecum). It was a best-seller and, with hundreds of added jokes, inevitably became the comedian's Bible...