Word: slapstickers
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...wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only address the intelligent few from behind a smoke screen of slapstick and in the language of a four-a-day fall...
...Conklin, again. Goodness me, how those boys are turning out the cinemae. This time, Mr. Fields is an oil stock salesman from the big city. He dupes the folk of Huntersville, including its richest inhabitant (Mr. Conklin). But Nature, happily, brings oil to Mr. Fields' long dry wells. Slapstick, rather sour...
P.ose Macaulay's perennial concern for human snobbishness, and consequent shams, takes new form in this entertaining tragedy, punctuated as it is with slapstick. No innovation, it is a psychological study of dual, or rather multiple personality. It is done with wit, intelligence, and according to Freud...
...spending most of their time in Widener a dashing visit to the Metropolitan this week is suggested as one way of forgetting the approaching midyears and throwing off the weariness of the fiesh resulting from much reading. In "Wife Savers" Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery display every brand of slapstick, horseplay, and clownishness capable of being photographed. With a French postwar background, a matrimonial motif and the assistance of Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW?Slapstick Shakespeare irreverently and amusingly revived in short skirts (TIME...