Word: gaggingly
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...cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville gag-lines, as The Big House did. Walter Huston plays the warden humanly and sensibly, although at times he has trouble making the dialog sound real. Best minor part: DeWitt Jennings as an extremely cruel guard...
...discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy gag...
...workmanlike kind of comedy. He is an ambitious salesman in a Honolulu shoe store who falls in love with a girl whom he takes for an heiress but who is really a private secretary. Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the plot, except as a framework for gags. Such a gag is the sequence in which he makes some light social remarks about a titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that of a racehorse with which he is familiar. There is a gag with fishcakes and a dog, and a gag with an exploding cigar...
...look at, and, as a matter of fact they are considered to be the most beautiful girls of the troup. There really is no question about that. Why they ever had the name of the Lovely sisters thrust upon them is indeed hard to determine. Will Mahoney's best gag comes towards the end of the show when he dances on a xylophone and plays a tune while doing so. He is, however, entertaining at all times...
...just as hard as I can. Go on with your majority! Put on your cloture! I make no agreements! I will go on as best I can and when God no longer permits me to stand upon my feet, I will take my medicine. Go on and stifle and gag...