Word: slapstickers
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...large and motley horde of movie-goers who follow with enthusiasm the irrepressible clowning of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can get a plethora of it by trekking to the State Theatre. The two comedians are currently featured in "Pack Up Your Troubles," a five reel slapstick comedy. This picture, the second full length film which they have appeared in, takes them for the usual round of bad breaks, during the course of which Laurel's features continue to grow amazingly dumber and dumber...
People who like their Laurel and Hardy in small doses will find this one a little too long-winded. Five reels of even the best slapstick is more than enough. The dialogue and plot are inconsequential, and when the clowning slows up there is nothing left to the picture...
...Nous, La Liberté! (Tobis-Paris). French Director René Clair has made a brilliant attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes...
...last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera or Schaaf. Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk. It is due partly to the fact that most of Levinsky's fights have been in Chicago, where everyone knows that he grew...
...TiME, December 28). The sweeping began several weeks ago in cities scattered throughout the U. S., was made conspicuous last fortnight by arrests of newsdealers in Washington, D. C. As its publishers had feared would happen, Ballyhoo was included in the clean-up of its much dirtier imitators, Hooey, Slapstick and the defunct Tickle-Me-Too. In every city where the cases were finally disposed of-Memphis, Knoxville, Atlanta, Richmond, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J.; Spokane, Bellingham and Yakima, Wash.-Ballyhoo was permitted to resume sale. In Manhattan newsdealers were warned by the license commissioner not to sell Brevities, Paris...