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Word: comicalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...onetime Postmaster General of New South Wales who wanted his son to become a surgeon, has played drunks for 20 years throughout the U. S. and the British Empire, but he never drinks. He has been a clown, an animal trainer, an acrobat; he worked from burlesque into comic leads in Broadway shows. Most celebrated of his comic assets are his folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...artistic but exceedingly facetious. It is in a comic vein not exactly in keeping with the exhibition as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Welfenschatz | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/5/1930 | See Source »

Made In France may be considered as over-roguish, but no worse than the average biological farce. Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Renegades (Fox). Another Foreign Legion charade, this one is built around a fascinating spy (Myrna Loy) and four comrades of the Legion, one of whom has been delegated to provide comic relief. Amid camels, shouting, Riffian war, death, seduction, the honor of the Legion is upheld by heroes who bear a startling resemblance to the jobless men who can be found most afternoons in the reading rooms of actors' clubs. Warner Baxter, who has been successful in adventure cinemas because he is what is called a type, continues to be a type. Miss Loy's competence is wasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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