Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...epic of baseball's biggest swell-head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
...automobile has ruined my business," he said slowly. "Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were God's gift to the whitewing. But Frank can shovel...
Glass-jawed Phil Scott, onetime British heavyweight champion, was discovered deep in London rubble, heading a squad of wardens digging out a bombed air-raid shelter. Puffed Fainting Phil as he leaned for a moment on his shovel: "And I used to think boxing was hard work...
Pittsburgh's Variety Club, orphan-succoring organization (started twelve years ago after an actor found a baby at a local theatre), feted a ten-month-old foundling, named him Joe E. Brown. On hand for the festivities, shovel-mouthed Comic Brown bounced the baby on his knee, talked of adopting him (though he had five...
...same picture and expect the result to be anything but a hash. In "The Dictator" Chaplin appears in two parts: the pathetic and familiar little figure, and the dictator. As the barber he is the old Chaplin. His dance sequence after getting bopped on the head with a shovel, and the nonchalant feat of accompanying the Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody with his razor while shaving a frightened customer are as good as anything he did in the era of "The Kid" and "The Circus." Naturally he plays Adenoid Hinkel, the Phooey of Tomania, superbly. But here he is moving...