Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Funnyman Ed Wynn's Laugh Parade was on Broadway last winter tens of thousands of people saw it, paying top prices of $5.50 at the box office, sometimes three times as much from speculators. One man saw it four times. Each time he bought a seat in a box, turned his back on the stage as soon as the curtain went up. Despite this antic, which seemed eccentric to other spectators, the four-time box-sitter meant much more money in the end to Funnyman Wynn than anyone else in the house. For by keeping his ears open...
...Wynn was reluctant to broadcast at first. He was convinced he could not do it. He finally decided that an audience might help, rigged himself up in costume and went ahead. With people in the studio actually laughing so he can hear them, he is able to work. Free tickets to his performance are given out by NBC and Texaco and usually between 700 and 800 people are at his broadcasts. But he has never completely shaken his fear of the "mike." fear that his listeners, estimated at 20 millions now, are not laughing. The Texas Co. hired him with...
...Carl Laemmle, the movie producer, was induced to attend a performance. To the considerable astonishment of his companions, he sat through the entire action without any outward reaction at all, but applauded vigorously at the final curtain. On the way out someone commented that the producer had not laughed once during the evening. Mr. Laemmle is said to have exclaimed. "Laugh! Should I laugh at something I've been weeping over for twenty years...
...version. They will probably agree with the Playgoer that the additions which the camera makes too often seem like a stupid man's laborious explanation of the point of a joke. They will also find that the humor, though still present, has been effectively softened. Hollywood is willing to laugh at itself--but not too loudly...
...Laugh Parade" is simply a succession of vaudeville sketches featuring Mr. Wynn or elss a specially performer to whom Mr. Wynn is an expert feeder of situations, and the before mentioned song and dance numbers. At the performance which the Playgoer attended, the audience showed its excellent judgment by reserving its enthusiastic applause for the scenes in which Ed Wynn dominates. Apart from his other talents, this comedian has an excellent reputation for his ability to build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary...