Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever liberties Funnyman Will Rogers may permit himself in conversation, the homely humor of his syndicated daily squibs is lily-pure, fit for consumption by all the households reached by clean home newspapers. Hence, Rogers-readers were mildly astonished one day last week to find in his "letter to the editor" a comment which might have passed unnoticed in scores of other colyums but which, for Rogers, verged on the "raw." Returning from Managua to the U. S. via Venezuela by plane, Will Rogers wrote...
Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...
...medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire of the novel. He has concentrated on the humor of anachronism and made a thorough job of it. His method is not subtle, but the book is not either, and the picture is just as funny as the book...
...Great Man is a cheap show about a pirate (Walter Woolf) who kills, conquers and seduces with equal good humor. In one of the towns he raids, the Governor's wife plans to protect her virtue by making herself ugly, sacrificing her unmarried niece. When the Governor's wife discovers what a handsome fellow Mr. Woolf is, she abandons her disguise. But by this time the niece is unwilling to give up the buccaneer, makes him marry her. Mr. Woolf, blustering about with hair on his chest, is embarrassingly exhibitionistic...
...Italy for his work among Italian immigrants. He is a staunch advocate of bigger, stronger, fewer banks. At Los Gatos, Calif., he is president of a golf club, but never has swung a club himself. At home he raises berries and fruit. Mr. Bacigalupi's excitability and sense of humor were both illustrated a dozen years ago in Oroville, Calif. Insulted by a county attorney named Goldstein, he struck him in the nose, pitched in. After standers-by intervened, Lawyer Bacigalupi turned to reporters, laughed, remarked: "There are more peacemakers than fight fans here...