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That idiotic question was the beginning of one of vaudeville's characteristically fabulous success stories. Second-rate Comedian Joe Penner, born Joseph Pinta at Nadgybeck Kereck, Hungary, became almost immediately a first-rate comedian. He got a tour with Paramount Publix stage shows, a contract for 15 Warner Brothers shorts. In the course of the next two years, he had two more inspirations: 1) "You nasty man!" 2) "Don't never do that!" By 1933, all three had become household slogans. Because of his radio popularity, Joe Penner's weekly salary jumped from...
...have a gold contract to abrogate; or an airmail contract that needed cancelling; or if you are a professor; or you could probably get first-hand information for a divorce; but when the New Deal thinks of you as a "speculator"?in the words of Joe Penner, "you nasty citizen...
...Penner and a unidentified blonde with nice legs are, according to the bill boards, and added attraction. These incurable followers of Penner will not be daunted by his appearance in the cinema, but skeptics as to his merit will ponder whether to classify him as moron or an imbecile. Mr. Penner does not profit by his venture in Hollywood. All in the all the afternoon was pretty much of a loss, for it was not warm enough outside for the cooling system of the theatre to be appreciated...
Ozzic Nelson and his Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra will be the feature of the Lowell House Dance, Friday, May 11. With the orchestra will be Harriet Hilliard, radio star on the Joe Penner program. Previous plans for the dance were scrapped last night, and it was decided to decorate the dining hall in modernistic motif...
East Wind's velocity is exceedingly low except for the sporadic appearance of a funnyman named Joe Penner. Mr. Penner bounces around, ogles like a monstrous, puckish infant. He sells a bleached elephant to some unsuspecting Indo-Chinese, is thereafter terrorized by the victims of his chicane...