Word: gaggings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally for a serious role but Harry confesses: "I can't play straight, I get too embarrassed. Right in the middle of a scene I get to thinking how ridiculous all this is, and I gag...
...gag was suggested by Phil A. Sinclair, a 1936 Ohio State University graduate, a "Teke"' who rated the Journalism School's blessing as an A-1 promoter...
...thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never forgive the king for inviting her to a dinner at which she had to sit down with "that woman" Mrs. Simpson. As presses begin to clatter, the provincial Yorkshire Post historically spits out the gag which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently...
...fictional are the practices loan office operators are warned against in the article entitled "Unending Vigilance-the Price of Pawnbrokers' Success." Biggest current menace, according to this article, is the "teeth substitution gag," by which swindlers trick unwary pawnbrokers into accepting brass-coated false teeth for gold...
...Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...