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...woods and forgetful of the match. Consequently things look bad for Luke who has bet his roll on the former intercollegiate prom trotter. Not to let his money go so easily, he accepts the challenge and forthwith begins another battle of the century in which every comedy gag in the versitile pair's bag of tricks is uncovered. In the end, Luke wins, of course, when the two of them roll down a declivity and Cannon-Ball meets a stump halfway down with Luke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Act II | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...First Flame. Harry Langdon clowns wistfully as lover and amateur fireman in this hilarious gag comedy. Producer Mack Sennett made this newly released comedy many months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...wickedest ways. He would marry his pretty granddaughter to the grandson of his partner (in the garage business). The grandson helps himself into trouble by helping out a bootlegging World War veteran. But the aged rascal fixes everything. The play consists for the most part of "canned" gag situations of the reliable "old soak" brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...gag" is to cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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