Word: slapsticking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disorderly little magazine called Tickle-Me-Too, published by Harold Hersey, who publishes magazines for Bernarr Macfadden, who had engaged in a bitter quarrel with Publisher Delacorte. Tickle-Me-Too was so inferior that Publisher Hersey promptly killed it (but in a few weeks he will offer another called Slapstick). Last week newsstands were dotted with Hooey...
Cinemactress Dressier's producers have not let her starve, but they have given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which...
...lies largely in the excellent situations developed. The quips are obvious, occasionally cumbrous, and, except when Jean Dixon handles them rather unconvincing. But the authors were quick to realize that the real wit lay in their subject, in their caustic satire. If at times this becomes rather broad and slapstick, they may be excused by the fact that as a rule they stick to their knitting and produce what is a very necessary douche for America's most chronic, most virulent ailment...
When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. 40 songs were promptly written about him in the U. S. Some were serious, some slapstick, all packed with platitudes. "Lucky Lindy" and "Lindbergh, the Eagle of the U. S. A." were most popular but they were soon forgotten. It was a German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...