Word: slapsticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on Hepburn's whirlwind schedule were a victory luncheon, a slapstick initiation to Manhattan's Circus Saints and Sinners.* Mitch breezed through both of these, then headed back home to Canada...
...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...
...information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...
...detonator is to dynamite, "Hold That Ghost" is easily one of the top ticklers of the year. A thousand good gags--they've all stood the test of time--have been thoroughly rehashed and served up with a haunted house and the gaunt Andrews Sisters. This is unadulterated slapstick with Jello Costello as usual getting the slaps. If you've followed the 1941 Laurel and Hardy in their rampage through our armed forces, come back for more of the same comedy--if not, then come to form the Abbott habit...
...reminded us of nothing so much as a slightly milder "Hellzapoppin" with a plot tagging along behind. Like the Olsen and Johnson show, it presumably will draw sophisticated snubs from the critics while packing the mobs in by droves. It has political satire, murder mystery, and slapstick in about equal portions, and there's a good chance that you'll be sitting near one of the cast if you're in the orchestra. The plot involves a couple of violent deaths which only add to the fun, and the leading character is Tom Dewey minus mustache...