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Word: slapsticker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third in the series that began with Road to Singapore, this elaborate essay in slapstick is dedicated to the propositions that frenzy is fun and that even a cold-storage turkey can fly if its torso is Lamour, and if Hope and Crosby flap its wings. Neither proposition quite proves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Some of it is overly-sophisticated, as the catty dialogue with Pamela, the Major's fiancee; and some of it is slapstick: the chase through the train to escape the conductors, her contortions to stop the Major's nosebleed with a cold towel. But more important and more satisfying are the take-offs on sophistication, the Veronica Lake fad, the girl-wise cadets, and the whole portrayal of the buffaloed Major Kirby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical Spanish dancer Argentinita and her colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective as acrobatics in vaudeville. Humor, however, is the mainstay, with a relay of, Bert Wheeler, Willie Howard, and a dumb-but-not-deaf young man, Gene Sheldon, who all but steals the show...

Author: By L. M. W., | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/13/1942 | See Source »

...French Lick Springs, Ind., famed for Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Cheesecake for Victory | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...adds sly innuendoes to the maxims his mother makes him recite. As court jester to Bambi, who is a prince and must maintain a reasonable reserve, he is very funny. His inability to keep his itching foot from vibrating while making love to the beauteous Mrs. Thumper is great slapstick. So is the skating lesson he gives Bambi. "Come on," he coaxes, "the water's stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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