Word: slapstickers
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...European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick is the same that, 200 years ago. drew tears of laughter from simple London cits and beefy German burghers: mistaken identity, boys dressed up as girls, people hiding under tables, lurking in clothes presses, listening behind screens, popping out of trap doors...
...Gallup Polls and FORTUNE Surveys. The system works to everyone's advantage except Henry's until he is called upon to decide when and why the average U. S. citizen would go to war. At this point Thanks for Everything explodes into a climax which combines straight slapstick with vigorous satire on such U. S. preoccupations as the advertising business, manufactured war scares, quack psychiatry, 1939 World's Fairs...
...sensation of the eighth grade. Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high schools...
Professor Beware (Harold Lloyd-Paramount), the last practicing exponent of film slapstick appearing in a talkie which would be funnier if it did not give the impression of being an overstocked museum of silent comedy technique...
Tropic Holiday (Paramount): standard slapstick musical comedy exhibiting Martha Raye and Bob Burns against a Mexican background and Dorothy Lamour, who wore a sarong in Her Jungle Love, Hurricane, wearing a serape...