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Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields...
...goat-bearded tall man who stuck his thumb in the goat-bearded short man's eye died this week in Beverly Hills. He was Lewis Maurice Fields, 74, known to two generations as the aggressive half of Weber & Fields, the greatest knockabout comedy team in theater history...
...treatment, in its precise and vivid descriptions of Flemish country life and customs. Van der Meersch has a gift (aided here by highly sympathetic Translator Hopkins) for conveying the mud and mist of the low-lying Belgian country, the bleakness of its villages, the hard craft and knockabout hilarity of its inhabitants. To describe them he strays frequently, and to good effect, from the path of his narrative. Best scenes: a country woman dressing, layer by layer, in her go-to-market clothes; description of a cockfight; Breughel-esque picture of a village fair...
...vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant in politics and a Democrat in religion," lives...
...feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century...