Word: slapstickers
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...screen. The latest version, "Love Is News" moves along so briskly, however, and is packed with so many amusing episodes that the frailty of the plot can well be overlooked. It is obviously not a film for the intelligentsia, for the comedy at best is somewhat rough and often slapstick, but the enthusiasm of Tyrone Power, Jr., Don Ameche and Loretta Young make it a film well worth seeing...
Realizing the monotony, the producers evidently tried to inject humour in the form of Ted Healy and his face-pushing slapstick. Nevertheless, the murder is eventually solved, the diamond recovered, and Philip finds himself in Phyllis's arms. The two interests, humor and mystery, seem to get in each others' way throughout, frequently tripping up the action. Perhaps the one redeeming feature of the whole production is Elissa Landi, whose performance is good and beauty better...
Though their party was mainly slapstick, the Guild had earned it by more than a year of hard work. In that time they had gone a long way towards restoring the Metropolitan's prestige to what it was in pre-Depression years. The season beginning Dec. 21 may well end without a deficit. Those who celebrated last week* could remember the end of an era in Manhattan opera. To them belonged much of the credit for the beginning...
...warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes an art of slapstick comedy. His performance as a drunk and a hard-boiled father saves the dialogue time and again from sinking into monotonous sentimentalism...
Rich and stupid Lala Palooza set out vigorously to please all lovers of oldtime funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother...