Word: slapstickers
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Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...FROM BLANKLEY'S-John Barrymore in slapstick...
...varying times it is sentimental, heavily, socially satirical, slapstick. But despite the romances and lampoons and picturesqueness, it is the reliable spirit of low comedy which prevails. There is a comical, hungry goat, and there is Mr. Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without veering into some of the precarious makeshift furniture, thereby causing its collaspse. Whenever the tempo lags or the substance thins, some such violent commotion as Mr. Carrington's table-toppling is almost bound to provoke a horselaugh...
Throughout the second period the teamplay was ragged with the Crimson forward line showing the effects of Garrison's absence. Wood's individual stickwork, however, shone out over the rough slapstick attempts of both sides...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford hilariously interpret Shakespeare's best slapstick...