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...Hasty Pudding Theatricals produced "Crowns and Clowns," their first musical since before the war. It showed the rise and fall of a Bolshevik Prince who usurped the throne of the Kingdom of Czecho-Ptomania...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Class of 1919 Comes Home | 6/10/1969 | See Source »

...Chaplin sticks to his script (he usually gets plenty of ideas on the set), The Great Dictator will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scripteaser | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Crowns and Clowns" deals with the political ups and downs of the distant land of Czecho-Ptomania where a lazy king and a fiery Bolshevik each take their turn in making the people's existence wretched. It is entirely a travesty on Bolshevism, portraying the socialist rule in its humorous aspects. In the cast are included a real dog and an unreal horse, each of which plays its part in ridiculing the Bolsheviks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAVESTY BOLSHEVISM IN PUDDING COMEDY | 4/11/1919 | See Source »

...cast of characters will be as follows: Ivan, King of Czecho-Ptomania, amorously uninterested in the governmental, C. A. Clark, Jr., '19 Anna, sister of the King, Cupid's contribution to Bolshevism, H. C. Flower, Jr., '19 Borus, would be president of a would be republic of Czecho-Ptomania, C. Canfield '19 Catherine, sister of Borus, a socialist with a social twist, D. H. Read '19 General Hupincoff, J. Lavalle, J.r, '18 Colonel Umptski, A. Horween '20 Gumbutoff, Anabaptistical Attendant Idolizing Borus, R. H. Ware '20 Flitch, his dog, a Ptomania fleece-hound, The Dog Peter B. Heinz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAVESTY BOLSHEVISM IN PUDDING COMEDY | 4/11/1919 | See Source »

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