Word: slapstickers
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...complications and extravagances of Victor Herbert light operas are perhaps surpassed only by the antics of Congress. The current offering of the Copley Light Opera Company, "The Red Mill" presents a wide collection of songs and slapstick set against an incongruous background of Dutch windmills, green fields, and canals...
...some pains to show that all his characters who dislike or despise Science are white trash or will come to a bad end. Like most enthusiastic exhibitions of bloodthirsty bayonet work on straw men. Author Wells's easy triumphs are a little embarrassing to watch. But his slapstick satire can draw a grin: "He was pleased and excited to find that he could weep with passion. He had never wept with passion before. Could she resist that? He implored in a great voice, a kind of mooing roar. 'Give yourself to me. Margaret. Give yourself now. Give yourself...
...tramp in the other feature, succeeds again in doing what only he can do: making a soppingly sentimental plot not only bearable, but enjoyable. This story, taken from Ben Ames Williams' "Jubilo," gives him a chance to display all his talents. There's pathos and there's slapstick comedy, there's sentimentality and there's wisecracking. And Marion Nixon as the sweet and Innocent daughter doesn't hurt...
...Senate rules Charles Gates Dawes fabricated a slapstick issue to keep himself politically alive and ended up by being a real backstage power in shaping legislation. The nearest Vice President Curtis ever came to influencing public affairs was when his vote broke a tie on tariff flexibility. Some day in the Senate corridor his marble bust will take its place along with those of James Sherman, Charles Fairbanks, Garret Hobart, Levi P. Morton, Adlai E. Stevenson and other substitutes who never got into the great game of running the country...
...Tito Schipa, who sang leading roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company until it disbanded last spring (TIME, July 4), appeared in L'Elisir d'Amore as the timid rustic who gets tipsy on a love potion taken to help him win the village belle. Schipa was not so slapstick in the role as Tenor Gigli, whom he is replacing. His voice is lighter. But he sings Italian arias with the old-fashioned sentiment which the galleries adore...