Word: comically
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...story has been yanked directly from the comic sheets and shows it; not only that, but it has also been diluted with Hollywood sentimentality. A poor farm boy goes to the big city, and becomes famous as a prize fighter. Whereupon he immediately starts to sow a large crop of wild oats with the expert help of Lupe Velez. But his old mother back on the farm hears about it, and, being well aware of the traps that these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from...
...brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together in agony. 'I'm very amusing', the shouted over and over, I'm essentially a comic character!' but his words were lost in the larger sound of the worlds were lost in the larger sound of the world's fury...
University--"Fugitive Lovers". Sex and crime in the persons of Madge Evans and Robert Montgomery form a lurid union in a Greyhound bus; Ted Healy and his stooges provide much needed comic relief. "All of Me". A good play spoiled by the director and partially redeemed by Miriam Hopkins...
...fancy advertisement for the excitements of metropolitan nightlife. The Ninth Guest is civilized scarecrow drama, handsome, improbable and exciting. Worst shot: a butler fumbling with a block of ice to provide comic relief...
Died. John Coleman Terry, 53, cinemanimator, comic strip artist, brother and onetime associate of Producer Paul Terry who created "Aesop's Film Fables" (see above); of kidney disease; in Coral Gables...