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Word: kops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget show and will probably close within the month. Another Three Men on a Horse is a thirties comedy revived to generally favorable reviews and miserable box-office. Jimmy, the lone musical. cost $900.000, opened to unanimous pans and will fold any minute at a total financial loss. Arthur Kop it's Indians, the most exciting and well received play of the season, has failed to arouse the kind of business necessary to establish it as a long-run hit. The other two productions are Angela and Butterflies Are Free , another commercial formula comedy and the only likely financial success...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: From the Shelf The Death of Broadway | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

Married. Chester Conklin, 78, known to oldtime moviegoers as the walrus-mustachioed Keystone Kop; and June Gunther, 65, sometime movie actress; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Fortunately, there comes now and then a breath of fresh air, most of it from Joyce Grenfell's direction. Comedienne Grenfell, who plays a sort of female Keystone Kop, brings to her part the appearance of a female Fernandel. Horse-faced and giraffe-bodied, long in the tooth and weak in the head, she seems to have been endowed by her creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gymslip Brigade | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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