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...dressed visitor from Britain presented himself at the house of a Burmese dignitary. He was met by a bevy of lovely Burmese girls carrying bowls of water, who said a few words in their native tongue. Anxious to be agreeable, the Briton nodded, whereupon the maidens deluged him, from topper to spats, with cold water. The master of the house laughed & laughed...
This spring's program will include "Shoe Shine," "Odd Man Out," "Ivan the Terrible," "The Long Voyage Home," "Topper," "Grand Illusion," and several Chaplin films...
Meanwhile the Film Series has tentatively scheduled several Charlie Chaplin and "Topper" films to replace the with-held movies...
Married. Roland Young, 60, tweedy, henpecked satyr of prewar cinema (Topper, The Young in Heart); and Dorothy Patience May, 40, British divorcee; each for the second time; in Jersey City...
...Laffmovie is one of a chain of three, the other two being in Baltimore and New York. Since the founding in 1943 the policy has remained pretty constant, "the more custard pies per reel the better." There have been deviations into more sophisticated comedy of the "Topper" type, "but," says the Boston advertising manager, "the kids didn't get the hang of the double entendre," And so, since the giants of the deadpan and the thrown pie are no more, the theater sticks to the oldies. "There are very few good new ones," the Laffmovie's spokesman says sorrowfully...