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...with the D'Oyly Carte Company (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Her lover Hans was to be Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain, the inseparable red umbrella. The stammering, half-witted Wenzel was Tenor George Rasely, a native of St. Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made...
GIVE Us THIS DAY-Louis Zara-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The rise and decline of a baker, told in vague, groping, pseudo-epic style. Tedious reading, relieved occasionally by an unintentionally comic passage...
Thirty-seven-year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After...
...surprise of Special Investigator is that comic relief is confined to a laudable minimum. Another is the appearance of Erik Rhodes, the elfin corespondent of The Gay Divorcée, as a sinister racketeer...
...heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...