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...Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...
From here on in, things develop into a kind of actors' field day, with alternations of slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress...
Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif...
Corn, but No Beer. The first strip McManus did for Hearst was a slapstick called The Newlyweds. Last year old Mr. Hearst got to remembering it-even though he couldn't remember its name-and ordered the artist to resume "that strip with the baby." So, since January, the Sunday Jiggs strip has had Snookums and the Newlyweds at its top. Hearst once told McManus that "rushing the growler" was out, since subscribers in dry states might be offended to see the characters lugging cans of beer...
...spectacle of American pie throwing, egg smashing slapstick filled his hungry body with loathing. On the street, he found the "drunk, amorous" American tourist "strutting haughtily" with the "insufferable arrogance [of] a master race." "This we can never forgive or forget...