Word: greasepainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the clown whose heart was breaking beneath his greasepaint, even though he capered and grimaced ever so gayly, from the sad fate of the little sawdust equestrienne, from the scores of tragedies of tarnished tinsel, the playwrights of today 'have traveled rather swiftly over a long road. They have left behind the doubtful humors of bathos, which are caught by only a minority of their listeners and even then in contradiction of the author's intention. From the mists of experiment may appear the author who can view life again as a stage, with perhaps some of the subtlety...
...Columbia Burlesque management has anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...