Word: screenmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of pantomime, pie throwing, and provocative leering at women, while our present generation of couriers relies chiefly on flip lines and artless mugging. Slapstick is passing out of existence, but not out of date. Until a new generation of wits rediscover the art, go down to the Laffmovie and rear at the last...
Pennsylvania-born Jimmy Stewart had a conservative education, blossomed after college into unconservative fame as a nice-looking, homey cinema hero. His longtime hobby was aviation. When he entered the Army in March 1941 (one of the first screenmen to do so), he was already a licensed commercial pilot...
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